liposuction has been around for a long time and has had a lot of advancements
through the years nothing however is without some degree of risk so we can
start with those things that we consider risks starting at surgery and we'll work
our way through the recovery and see if we can't cover all those things when you
have surgery it can be done either under anesthesia or it can be done under local
without any type of sedation now the problem with that is it's hard often to
get a good result when you're just doing it with local anesthesia and it doesn't
mean that there aren't risks so people that have it under local might have
excessive pain they still could have things like bleeding you can still have
the other complications that we'll get to but the only thing you're really
getting past are the risks of the sedation itself in that case along with
the other types of liposuction there can be some complications that are due to
the local anesthesia itself there are certain limits that you should have and
when that's your sole method of applying the anesthesia it is possible that you
could get a little bit too much so we will always want to be aware of how much
local anesthesia you're getting and we calculate that based upon your weight
and they're really good formulas for us to know this is definitely a safe amount
to give that's been studied for a long time so we have that so that's kind of
at the surgical in the anesthesia time there are the risks of bleeding but the
way anesthetic is done today with the local in addition to the other sedation
the amount of bleeding is very small relative to the amount of fat that's
removed when In started and practice in training over 20 years ago almost a
third of what was suctioned out actually was blood so you were limited you
couldn't remove more than you know a liter or two so because that way you
would only use lose like a unit of blood now it's about 1% of what is suctioned
out so it's a lot less given the proper techniques so we're really happy with
the way that progress so bleeding or the amount of
bleeding has become a relatively infrequent complication infection always
a risk anytime you make an incision on the body or the face there's a risk of
infection with liposuction again that's relatively small in our own patients
they get IV antibiotics at the time of their operation as well as taking
antibiotics after surgery which helps keep the infection rate low you want to
make sure you go to a place that has good sterilization good technique and
it's properly certified that's going to help decrease that type of risk of
happening then there are the more common things that maybe you're not quite as
bad you know a bit of a contour irregularity meaning a little bit of extra
fullness in the area or perhaps a little bit of a hollowness in an area when it's
just a little bit that's very manageable afterwards by just taking a little bit
more fat out perhaps in a small touch-up procedure or grafting fat back into an
area we unfortunately at times do see people who have had liposuction some
places where they've been too aggressive and that's led to a lot of irregularity
so you see somebody's abdomen that's been over suction and it looks like it's
cobblestones because it's just so waving irregular too much was taken in an
effort to maybe get really thin and and maybe that's where the patient was
wanting to go but as long as you're educated ahead of time on about how much
properly can be done that can also be minimized so when I generally go through
my list of complications on any surgery I'd like to
of them to make sure I cover with a patient believing we've got that
infection changes in sensation or loss of sensation very unlikely with my
liposuction usually sensation changes are temporary it would be extremely unusual
for anyone to have any type of chronic pain after liposuction but it is a
remote possibility some nerves could be bruised or injured and just never quite
come back all the way so that's really really infrequent but possible contour
irregularity or waviness just depends again upon the vision and
skill and the communication I think of the surgeon you're working with the
risks of little nodules are things that are underneath the skin well that's not
really a complication because they do go away it's a deeper bruise and those
things soften and get better with time and very rarely require any type of
additional treatment and then the anesthesia that you're getting whether
it's local or its general or if it's a combination of the two each are gonna
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