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How Liposuction Works
Liposuction is a surgical procedure that helps improve your body's look by removing excess fat from specific body areas - generally your hips, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, knees, upper arms, chin, cheeks and neck.
Generally, small volume or large volume liposuction is used as a last resort after unsuccessful diet and exercise efforts have failed to remove the unwanted fat.
Large Volume Liposuction
Large volume liposuction differs from small volume liposuction primarily in the recovery time and the time involved in the procedure. While those having liposuction over a small portion of their body can generally have the procedure in an outpatient clinic and return home the same day or the next day, that is typically not the case with large volume liposuction.
What To Expect When Undergoing Large Volume Liposuction
Liposuction can be performed in a clinic or medical facility that is part of a surgeon's office, or other outpatient location or in a hospital. A small volume liposuction is usually performed as an outpatient procedure to help keep patient costs under control. With large volume liposuction, however, an overnight hospital stay is generally required.
The type of anesthesia used may be influenced by liposuction volume as well.
If the surgeon will be removing only a small volume of fat from a small number of body locations, local anesthesia is quite possible. If large volume liposuction is going to be performed, however, local anesthesia may be used in conjunction with sedation intravenously to keep the patient relaxed during the procedure. General anesthesia might be recommended with large volume liposuction as well. This would be given and monitored by an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist and the patient would be unconscious during the entire procedure.
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The liposuction procedure is typically performed on the thighs, abdomen, knees, arms, chin and neck. Wherever fat seems to accumulate in your body can be the target of a liposuction procedure.
Liposuction is really not for someone excessively overweight. In fact the liposuction procedure is best performed on someone that is not far off her or his ideal body weight, with a few places where excess fat has accumulated.
A liposuction procedure is not generally a patient's first fat removal choice. It should be considered after other things - such as a low fat and low calorie diet as well
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