In this picture you can see the outline of the veins on the arm of a lady who had a small injection of morphine for pain relief during an operation.

Although it looks alarming this disappears 24-48 hours following surgery and does not cause any significant problems in the long term.

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The main types of liposuction available currently are vaser liposuction, smart lipo, power assisted liposuction, water assisted liposuction.

In each of these techniques the fatty tissue is removed by suction through hallow tubes (cannulas).

The difference is in how the fatty tissue is treated prior to it being sucked out.

In vaser liposuction a ultrasound cannula an ultrasound is use to help to go and liquefy the fatty tissue.

In power assisted water assisted liposuction energy is used to dissolve the fatty tissue and make it easier to remove by suction.

The important thing to remember is that whichever technique you have used, the most important thing is the surgeon performing the operation.

As with any skill such as building or DIY it is not the tool that is most important as is who is operating.

Liposuction is not the cure for fatness.

Generally if you are overweight particularly if your body mass index is over 30, liposuction is not the treatment for you.

You need to address your lifestyle issues and perhaps a personal trainer who can give advice on exercise and diet.

This is by far the safest, most effective way of gaining normal weight.

Liposuction is essentially for stubborn areas of fatty tissue which do not dissolve, which do not disappear when you lose weight.

These areas vary between individual and between the sexes. Also different in men and women.

These stubborn areas in fact the liposuction is most effective and appropriate for.

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This picture was taken of a scar on a lady’s abdomen that I saw today.

She had a mole removed ten years previously and stitched up by her general practitioner.

The scar has faded well and it’s now a very right silvery color but unfortunately she’s been left with small dots on the either side of the incision

These dots occurs by in growth of the top layers of the skin epidermis into the deeper layers dermis.

If the stitches are left in too long the [epidermis] grows down the stitch tracks when it is embedded in the [dermis] it will permanently marks like this.

The plastic surgeons recommend removing stitches from the face and approximately five days and from the body before ten days. If the stitches removed before this time they are very unlikely to develop dots on either side of them as in this case.

Scarring for liposuction is usually very minimal and I tend to advise people that it will usually fade into a small pale scar.

Generally for each area that has liposuction two small incisions will be required. In some cases three will be needed.

In order for it to be possible to achieve a flat result it is best to for the liposuction to be performed in a crossed section like a lattice which will reduce the risk of developing ridges that can occur if the liposuction tube is place is inserted through one hole only.

If you are having a number of areas are treated your surgeon maybe able to use the same small incisions to remove fat from more than one area. This reduces the amount of incisions you will require.

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This lady is very interesting in that she has had a right-sided inverted nipple for the past 45 years.

She underwent an attempted correction of this in 1985 and again in 1995.

From the four pictures of the nipples you can see four pale scars radiating away from the nipple in a cross pattern.

These are produced by an old-fashioned technique for nipple inversion correction in which a tongue of tissue is elevated from the brown areola where these scars are and then brought under itself and then flipped and then reflect it over itself to go under the nipple to give it support.

The disadvantage of this technique is that they produces scars on the areola (the brown area around the nipple).

It also did not work as in this lady’s case where she noticed recurrence of the nipple inversion almost immediately.

I corrected the nipple today under local anesthetic and the after pictures are taken of the nipple 20 minutes after the first pictures.

It is very unlucky that the nipple inversion will recur after using my technique for correction of inverted nipple correction.

These photos and video show interesting case of a lady I operated on earlier today.

She had breast enlargement surgery six years ago with what looks like thin walled with low cohesive gel implants.

You can see the implant on the right was right ruptured while the implant on the left was intact.

I managed to remove the silicon on both sides and clean the area up completely before inserting new breast implants.

As you see from the photograph these old thin walled implants were very runny [low cohesive silicon] and are more prone to rupture than later implants and if they do so the silicon is much less runnier and can disperse more than the thicker silicon within the new implants.

Today I saw a very interesting patient who had a breast augmentation five years ago.  From examination the implants were lying in a very high position under the muscle.

I could tell the implants were under the muscle by asking the patient to place her hands on her hips and press inwards. This causes the muscles to contract and you can feel the movement and also see it compressing the implant as the muscle contracts. This is a good way of telling whether the implants are placed infront or behind of the muscle as the muscle contraction has no effect on the implants and if they are in front of the muscle as the muscle is behind them and cannot compress them.

At surgery the implants were noted to be in a very tight position totally under the muscle and I replace them in front of the muscle. I also removed tissue from the lower part of her breast as her nipple to inframammary-fold distance was very long.

The combination of this treatment will give her a more natural softer appearance without the double-bubble effect.

Generally most surgeons will not perform progressive surgical procedures on patients with a body mass index of over 30.

This is because the risk of you having problems with slow wound healing or skin irregularity is being found to be much higher in people with a body mass index of over 30.

If you are considering any form of surgery to your body such as liposuction, tummy tuck  or breast reduction will be certainly be worth you checking your body mass index prior to surgery and try it and ensure is 30 or below.

Generally the maximum amount of fatty tissue that I recommend be removed during liposuction is 5 litres of fatty tissue.

This corresponds to approximately 5 kilograms of fat.

The reason I do not recommend removal of more tissue than this is that it can cause disturbances to the fluid balance in the body and serious complications following surgery and more common if more than 5 litres is removed.

However, five litres of fatty tissue being removed will make it considerable difference to your overall body shape.

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