Complications Associated With Liposuction

What are the possible complications of liposuction?

Like any other surgery procedure, liposuction too may have some complications, and it is a must for you to understand the limitations or possible complications, before make up your mind to have liposuction surgery. You may have heard some happy stories from your friends of their procedure outcome, there's still no reason to rush on your decision as it is a cosmetic surgery, not a medical necessary. Liposuction may not the only option to choose, before you go ahead seeing any qualified surgeons who can perform liposuction surgery, why not try other alternatives first, such as taking the right diet and have a regular exercise. You wouldn't want a suppose to be a fantastic story turn into a not so fantastic plastic surgery story.

Below are some possible complications of liposuction. Are you willing to take the risk that it might happen to you?

• Burn- This can happen when the ultrasound probe become too hot during ultrasound assisted liposuction.
• Swelling- The patients may experience swelling for weeks or months after the procedure.
• Fat embolism- A condition in which an artery is block by fat clots. During liposuction procedure there's possibility of ruptured blood vessels, and may give ways the loosened fat to enter the blood. Fat emboli trapped in the arteries can travel to the brain, may cause disability, in some cases, can be fatal.
• Infections- In the effort of keeping the wounds clean, infections may still can occur after surgery. Infections can be life threathing such as in the cases where bacteria eat away the tissue.
• Nerve compression- This can be in the form of an increased pain or numbness on the area of liposuction and it can be permanent.
• Fluid Imbalance- Patients may be injected with large amount of fluid during liposuction surgery and can cause a fluid imbalance. Experiencing kidney problems is a sign of fluid imbalance, happen because the kidney trying to maintain the balance.

Those are just few complications of liposuction that I heard of, the fact is there are other more. It is not sure what is the statistic of death happen from liposuction surgery, but there are numerous of death reported related to the liposuction procedure.
That's why it is important to take into consideration those possible complications and make a serious decision, whether liposuction is for you.

Who Can Perform Liposuction Surgery?

Q: Who can performs liposuction surgery?
A: Plastic surgeons or dermatologists.

Although liposuction surgery can be performed by any licensed physician, it's recommended to visit the one who has had specialized training to do liposuction and had successfully done the liposuction surgery before. Patient may experience complications during the surgical procedure, thus it is important to make sure the premises environment is clean and have the complete medical equipment or ability to attend to any emergency cases.


What should you know before undergoing liposuction surgery?

• Consult a trained and experienced surgeon on what you should do before the surgery and what to expect after the surgery. Ask your surgeon about any potential complications during and after surgery.
• Get more information as you can about liposuction. You may consult opinion from few doctors.
• Talk and learn from those who had gone through the liposuction surgery.
• Compare your note and take time to decide whether you are willing to take any potential complications of undergoing liposuction surgery.

You must keep in mind, even the best screened patients under the care of the best trained and experienced surgeons may experience complications as a result of liposuction surgery.

Three Common Liposuction Procedure

Liposuction procedure improve body contours and proportion, and enhancing self confidence. Disproportionate contours due to localized fat deposits can be seen on the thighs area, hips and buttocks, upper arms, abdomen and waist area.

Three common variations to the liposuction procedure:

• Traditional liposuction - surgical suctioning of excess fat deposits

• Super-wet technique - requires an infusion of saline solution with adrenaline and possibly anesthetic prior to removal of excess fat

• Ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty - uses ultrasonic energy to liquefy excess fat prior to surgical suctioning

Before and After Liposuction Procedure

Before After

Before After

Suck The Fat Out With Liposuction

How to tell what is liposuction in a non medical term?

Sometime ago a friend mine asked, "Can you tell me what Liposuction is?"
I didn't mean to look down her, but the fact is she was a bit slow in catching something. In a bid to help her getting the picture I kind of used what ever things that is in front of me (we were having lunch on that moment). I put some ice cube in an empty glass, crushed it with a spoon into small pieces and enjoy it every sip with a straw while she's watching every details.

I asked her to imagine the ice cube was a bad fat that need to be suck out of the body, and the thing that sucking the crushed ice was a liposuction procedure.
She said,"eeyaak... that was a disgusting way of demonstrating a liposuction."
Well.. my liposuction surgery story tell ending was not bad at all, friend of mine got to learn some surgery procedure plus a big laugh.


What is Liposuction anyway?
It is a surgical procedure to remove unwanted fat from the body with the use of a vacuum-suction cannula or using ultrasonic probe that breaks up the fat into small pieces and then get it suck out with a suction. This surgical procedure are actually done to shape the body but many people tend to use it as a way to loose weight, which is not the original idea.