Liposuction is a surgery in which a cosmetic surgeon removes reshapes the patient's body by removing the unwanted excess fat in specific areas of the body (ex. In addition, the fat removed can also be injected into the same patient to increase volume or improve the contours of the body (ex. increase volume of buttocks, fill in creases and wrinkles in the face, etc.) Being able to determine the exa
ct quantity of fat which should be removed during the liposuction operation is one of the main problems and difficulties that a surgeon may encounter. By not being able to see the amount of fat deposits that still remain under the skin and their exact location, the surgeon often removes fat without a point of reference (or more specifically, without knowing the amount of fat there is left to remove and the exact location of it). As a result of this, after the liposuction procedure, lumps or dents may appear. This is caused by the surgeon not knowing precisely how much to remove, and therefore, too much or too little is removed. These unattractive lumps or dents often need to be filled with an artificial filler or with fat transfer (using the patient’s own fat). The lack of precision cannot be completely attributed to the surgeon himself, but rather to the fact that it is impossible to “see” what to remove under the skin. With new technologies for scanning of adipose tissues this allows the surgeon, while performing the liposuction procedure, to perfectly see the layer of fat being removed as well as how much is left and where it is. In this way liposuction truly becomes a precise operation in “high definition.”
The surgeon is able to shape and contour the body perfectly without leaving out even the smallest areas of fat or creating unattractive lumps or dents that may accompany the results of a liposuction.