Traditional Liposuction vs. Smartlipo

By George K. Verghese, MD

Mid-Atlantic Skin Surgery Institute

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Traditional Liposuction vs. Smartlipo

Traditional liposuction has been available for years and is used to treat large areas of the body where fat deposits have become prevalent. Recovery from this type of surgery is usually slow, bruising is extensive and the results can be less than optimal – especially when trying to target smaller areas of fat.

As a result of patients’ desire for less invasive forms of liposuction for more targeted parts of the body, laser-assisted Smartlipo body sculpting by Cynosure, a worldwide leader in the surgical, medical and aesthetic pulsed-light and laser marketplace, is now available.

Smartlipo greatly reduces a patients’ down time and accelerates healing to allow patients the ability to return to normal activities, such as work, in virtually no time at all.

With Smartlipo, there is significantly less bleeding, swelling and bruising than traditional liposuction. As a result, recovery is faster. Because local anesthetic is used instead of general anesthesia, the patient is awake during the procedure, which also assists with a faster, easier recovery.

Smartlipo is ideal for treating small areas, especially for patients who have localized fat deposits but very lax overlying skin, which would have been made worse by traditional liposuction.

So, in addition to melting the fat, Smartlipo coagulates and tightens the tissue and induces collagen production. This form of liposuction is ideal for treating fat deposits on the face and body, and the ancillary benefit of the laser stimulating collagen production leaves the skin firm which is an amazing and welcomed side effect.

No matter how strict some individuals’ diet and how religious they are about exercise, many of them just cannot eliminate localized areas of fat, such as around the abdomen or on the upper regions of the arms.

With Smartlipo, along with the skills of a qualified and caring surgeon, patients are now able to achieve results they never thought possible.