Many people are seeking liposuction to enhance their bodies for different reasons. Liposuction is the removal of deposits of fat that lie beneath the human skin, via a cannula (stinless steel hollow tube), through the assistance of a very powerful vacuum. The procedure is accomplished through general or local anesthesia or heavy sedation through IV.

One of the techniques of liposuction is Tumescent, which uses huge volumes or local diluted anesthesia, injected into the part with the fat. This makes the areas targeted to become firm and swollen or just tumescent. Use of local anesthesia has now been acclaimed as the safest type of anesthesia. This anesthesia remains after a couple of hours and pain narcotic medications are not needed after the surgery has been performed.

Another technique of liposuction is known as modified tumescent, referring to different combinations of local tumescent anesthesia as well as a number of other forms of heavy IV sedation or general anesthesia. However, use of heavy IV or general anesthesia sedations are known to be dangerous, thus an anesthesiologist is the only certified to administer them.

There are other different ways of carrying out liposuction, such as accomplishing it without pain, through using general or local anesthesia, wholly. In liposuction procedures, maximum volume and speed of the aspirate have never been the criteria of perfection or excellence. Excellence in the line of the procedure is measured as per the happiness and satisfaction of the patient, in the form of safety, results quality, finesse and patient comfort.
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