TUMESCENT LIPOSUCTION

Archive for June, 2010

Well, its about time for it. Traditional liposuction can be capable and have you down to weeks recovering but theres a relatively new process called VASER where the patient can actually be standing and awake if you can believe that. Its been featured on several news programs and a doctor right here in denver is one of the leading surgeons practicing this technique. Well tell you more about it now. We edited this down so the shots wont be bad. I keep performing this procedure with the patient awake. This is an awake lipo procedure. We can use drugs to make the patient comfortable enough to be awake and move herself to the table with very little help. This is the VASER ultrasound. Its been tuned to only melt fat, leaving everything else intact. The tip of the probe is doing the work for me so i dont have to rip it. Our end point is when the resistance is gone. Essentially. Wow. Thats how that works. Welcome, doctors, plastic surgeons. This is amazing. Doctor, why is it youre able to stay awake during something like this? We have current types of anesthesia that allows this, one, an epidural. The other uses a fluid with lidocaine similar to what youd use at a dentist but we use it in a much bigger way. Now, doctor, whos a good candidate for this? Did liposuction smooth you out as well as people say it does? There are a number of candidates. Traditionally we thought it would be for the overweight but now were seeing candidates of normal weight that cant in the gym get the …

Follow this patient from start to finish on her breast augmentation surgery.