what leads people to come to talk to me about liposuction
well obviously everybody's a little bit different but as I think about it there
are certain patterns that people sort of fall into one is the patient that as
they've aged is just unhappy and unable to unhappy with the way they look
and unable to change it to change it they've dieted they've exercised they've
failed they dieted they've exercised and they failed again and after enough of
that I think that they've started to turn toward alternatives coming in for
consults for liposuction generally have their problem areas that they focus on
and most patients are pretty savvy they've had friends or family that have
gone through this they've been on the internet they've checked out our website
where there's a ton of before-and-afters and so they have a real sense of what to
expect and what's appropriate what they don't have is sort of the surgical eye
or when tissues are appropriate for liposuction or going for are going to
need more than we make our recommendations and you get to choose
really what we do after that we need to set up a pre-op consultation and there's
a lot of things that happen at the pre-op consultation first it's your
second time in the opinion or if you're one of our many returning patients into
the 30th but it's it's the at least a second time you've been here now
that's really helpful because the third time you come is for surgery all of this
stuff is done here at the center and what's really good about that is it's
starting to become home it's not as strange it's not unusual you're not
going to another place a surgery center or a hospital you haven't been to before
you're seeing the same people that you see before and it lowers your blood
pressure yeah for your surgery it just makes everything go a little bit more
smoothly all these little things matter at the pre-op there's a whole bunch of
things that have to get handled we take your photos we give you your
prescriptions we give you your garments for the surgery we talk about the role
of support person we end up handling the finances and we ask we
give you a list of medications to avoid prior to surgery and we asked if there
any last-minute questions that you have and get them answered what comes to be
the surgery day big day come excited come as much as you
possibly can this is a huge turning point in your
life everything's gonna go fine and you'll find that it's over before you
know it you know you come with your support person that's usually a friend
or family if you're spending the night in our overnight suite that support
person goes home and comes back the next day we take care of you with a nurse
overnight here it's a wonderful way to do things you'll meet the anesthesia
provider they come in and talk to you about any medical issues you may have it
you've listed on your sheets that were done at the pre-op visit and then I or
one of the other doctors come in and we do our markings the markings are helpful
as landmarks and guidelines for us and after you've met both the anesthesia
provider and one of the doctors we go back to the operating room with the nurses
and in the operating room will make you very comfortable there's a nice warm air
filled mattress there to keep you comfortable and you get slipped in and
off you go and then off we go and then we do a lot
of work while you sleep so our post-op appointments as the times
we see you after surgery they're designed with very specific purposes in
mind all of our surgeries are like that facelift rhinoplasty breast surgery
doesn't matter in liposuction what we're looking for is we want to see you back
the first day to make sure that there's nothing untoward in terms of bleeding
there's a certain amount of bruising that we expect tissue should feel a
certain body soft kind of way they shouldn't feel hard so they should feel
like the front of your knuckle and not the back of your knuckle that would be
bad and we would deal with that that's why we see you back the next day if
you're staying in overnight suite then we'll come see you otherwise you'd come
back and visit us as we see you and give you a little blessing then we send you
off to your home where you'll be hanging out for a week or so depending on the
extent of the liposuction that can be anywhere from you know a few days to a
week something like that most people will take a week off given the amount of
liposuction we tend to do on them it's not like you're in a lot of pain pain on
a scale of one to ten is usually a two and very manageable with
anti-inflammatories which is a huge part of our life with out liposuction protocol that
point will let you go to the three-month mark which is kind of when we take a
really kind of hard look and say well how did we do at that point it's
possible to reoperation really needed to to do an enhancement or just fuss a
little bit here or there there's still healing that's going to happen but it's
healed to the point where we can do that and at that point we take pictures
compare them to pre to the post-op hopefully it's a big whoa
kind of moment and you want to show your friends
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