Vaser Liposuction is surgery done to break up fat using ultrasound waves. The fat is then removed through traditional liposuction methods. This type of liposuction is becoming increasingly popular since the downtime is minimal and patients are able to make a quick recovery and carry on with their everyday lives.
One of the major problems in our practice has been treating patients with severe sagging skin and still overweight, young and not married with a strong desire to avoid scars.
Can it be done ?
The overall answer is yes. However, a proper scientific way to help those patients is to build a general guidelines to analyze those patients and their particular set of problems and the correct path to intervene and achieve the best outcomes.
What type of skin for every area to be approached?
Thickness , stretch marks , sagging tissues between muscles and skin are the best references to evaluate skin quality and its tolerance to surgical and devices aggression.
What is the degree of sagging tissues involved per area?
Patients with sagging tissues in the upper abdomem and back are easily fixed whereas sagging skin the lower abdomem under the umbilical scar are much more difficult to achieve a proper skin retraction.
For every procedure patients are going to get benefits but with some setbacks
We know today that sagging skin or rolls around the body back and abdomem can be successfully approached by agressive liposuction and when combined with tissue generated heat a better retraction fo the skin is observed.
But what degree of aggressiveness can be exerted in the liposuction that can be tolerated and more importantly can be added to the use of heat generated device under that thin deflated skin? A major hurdle is that agressive liposuction can lead to a high degree of skin retraction that solve the rolls that patient present mainly in the back and upper abdomem, but will be difficult to add Jplasma under a deflated and thin skin in the areas mainly waistline
Thicker skin like in the back and arms or thighs submitted to aggressive liposuction May withstand better heat generated devices to help retract suctioned skin.
Another approach would be to do in 2 times surgery, the first one to deflate completely sagging skin and rolls, and then on the second surgical time to apply VASER and Jplasma to the areas. But due to costs and work leave absence difficulties, a 2 times surgical procedure rarely entice patients
So patients have to be aware of possible complications, where the main are post liposuction burns and skin loss and discoloration.
