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The Surgical Steps In Liposuction Are The Following

The surgeon inject a solution into the part of the body that will be surgically invaded. The solution is salt water, sedative and epinephrine. The epinephrine shrinks blood vessels which lessens the bleeding and bruising to the area about to be treated. The salt water helps in making fat easier to remove and the sedative lessens the pain in the area being treated.

There are three types of solutions that can be used depending on the method of liposuction chosen. In wet liposuction, the solution injected is less than the amount of fat to be removed. You will usually be under a general anesthesia for this type of method. In super wet liposuction, the solution injected is the same as the amount of fat to be removed. General anesthesia is usually used in this procedure. In tumescent liposuction, the solution is two or even three times the amount of fat to be removed. Tumescent liposuction makes the fat cells that are to be excised, puff up or tumesce. It is the most frequently used procedure and needs only a local anesthesia. Reports are that there is less bleeding and bruising using tumescent liposuction than with either the wet or the super wet liposuction methods.

Cosmetic surgeons do not do dry liposuctions because wet liposuctions of various degrees are safer. Once the solution has been injected, a tiny cut is made in you skin near the fat that is to be taken out and a narrow tube put in through the cut. The narrow tube is called a cannula and is connected to a vacuum pump. The surgeon moves the cannula through the fat cells and removes them. The tiny cut is then sewn up. The operation may take as much as two to five hours to be performed.