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Since most of the inquiries on the web are about Liposuction, Breast Implants, Rhinoplasty and Endolifting, etc. we will publish regularly answers to questions made about any of our specializations. I hope they are of great help.

Liposuction; as its name well describes it, It vacuums out fatty tissues.

EIn the Plastic Surgery "market" there are several ways to describe this procedure, most of them with a marketing purpose to differentiate it and speculate commercially speaking and in others the differences are so thin that the name is not Important, for example; "lipoaspiración"

Liposuction (synonym)

Liposuction Tumescent: the difference is the type of local anaesthesia, which is not so because it is used in all types of liposuctions, that is to say; it might deceive you.

Ultrasound assisted Lipoplasty: It uses ultrasound to destroy fatty cells first and then vacuum out the remaining oil.This technique is not used any longer due to the serious pos-surgical consequences such as; burns, scars, defects ("holes"), etc.

Microliposuction: (a deceit) it aims to deceive patients with the term MICRO that sounds small, while in fact in medicine this term means the use of a microscope, which is not used in liposuction.

Liposculpture: (another deceit) it aims to achieve the same as the above technique, that is to say, to minimize the surgical act, and the fears of patients to the operating room. The description is that the fat is sculptured, emphasizing the surgeon's artistic skill, which should always exist, here it is used with marketing purposes.

Laser Liposuction: this term is the PERFECTION OF CHEATING, since it aims to follow the same philosophy of the ultrasound that is to say, first treat the fatty tissues (destroy them, in this case BURN them) in order to vacuum out the remaining fat.The concept lies in the "sales pitch" since there is no connection with the truth but with "profit purposes". This is the same procedure of Liposuction with the use of a tumescent anaesthetic infiltration created by Dr. Klein (USA) more than 10 years ago and that is commonly used even though some surgeons use it as a sales pitch, the use of the word Laser sounds magic, technological, and that it will solve all wrongs which is far from reality.

"Power" liposuction: this method will facilitate the surgeon, a faster and less forceful liposuction since it is a ("hidraulic") machine that gives the cannula swinging movements of 2 mm, but … it does not mean a better aesthetic result. To sum up: these are all synonyms that pretend to allure the unwary.

Liposuction: This term is used because it is considered the clearest to our patients.

Liposuction consists in:
• A diagnosis of the type of localized Lipodistrophy or not in patients and any other alteration to be treated, then both the patient and surgeon agree on the treatment to be followed. Blood tests and pre-surgical cardiological tests are made.

• The procedure can be perfectly performed under local anaesthesia plus a sedative, but general anaesthesia can be used if the patient requires it. In the case of local anaesthesia the patient returns home the same day, but if general anaesthesia is used a 24 hour- hospital stay may be required.

• Local anaesthesia consists in the application of a great quantity of anaesthetic liquid until it causes the tumefaction of the tissue to be treated, which will allow the removal of fat tissues through a negative pressure (vacuum) by introducing a cannula that must not exceed 3 mm wide, without causing great bleeding or damaging any other noble tissue.

• In general post-surgical soreness is minimum thus no pain is felt since there is a temporary loss of sensitiveness in the areas treated. There will be edema ("swelling") on the first three days, but it will gradually disappear with the help of a girdle which the patient must wear for the first two weeks and with the application of massages to help lymphatic drainage.

• Since bleeding is scarce with the technique above mentioned, it allows the removal of up to 5 litres of fat tissue safely, nevertheless there will be some bleeding which will cause bruising in the areas treated that will disappear in two weeks. In some minimal cases it is unnoticeable.

Patients generally come back to work within the first week (mostly in minimal cases).

Even if it may improve cases associated with cellulites, IT IS NOT A METHOD TO TREAT CELLULITES