Risks From Tumescent Liposuctions
If you have decide for a cosmetic surgery then you have probably two problems. The first one is the surgery itself. Every surgery has risks which could probably even be fatal. The second problem is that you are doing the surgery for aesthetic reasons. So the surgery must also deliver aesthetic results beside the medical ones.
Most of us have seen a liposuction on television already. The doctor rams a needle into the body and sucks out the fat of the body. It doesn’t look gentle and it isn’t. That’s the traditional way of doing liposuction but there is a better way of doing it.
The so called tumescent liposuction adds some advantages to this procedure so that it becomes less invasive and much safer.
The advantages of tumescent liposuction are clear. Much less blood loss, a much faster recovery time and it just requires a local anesthesia instead of a full one. The procedure allows a fat removal with much less tissue damage and is therefore the number one technique in liposuction today.
Why is tumescent liposuction better? There is not really much of a difference but the one thing that is done differently is responsible for the good results. It is the liquid that is injected into the body that makes the difference. The liquid consists of lidocaine, epinephrine and saline and results in a slower blood circulation because the capillaries shrink.
The liquid is responsible for a swelling. This gives the needle much more room to operate and to remove the fat with less damage to the tissue.
Once the surgery is finished, you recover more quickly. Usually it just takes less than 4 days to recover enough to go back to work. There is pain of course but it is not that big that it causes troubles.
Beside of the liquid it is the same surgery, just yielding into much better results. The only negative side effect is that the tumescent liposuction takes a little longer than the normal liposuction. The extra time is needed to insert the fluid and then to suck it out of the body slowly afterwards.
Tumescent liposuction can have some complications of course. There are general problems like scars, pain and swelling for example but all these things should quickly go away after days or a few weeks. The more sever complications happen in less than 1% of all cases but you still should know them. Your doctor will inform you in detail about everything. However, tumescent liposuction is done thousands of times every year and is a very safe surgery nowadays.
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