miércoles, 6 de junio de 2012

Laser Liposuction Explained

Since first being introduced in 1998 by Columbian surgeons Drs. Rodrigo and Clara Neira, laser liposuction has drawn a great deal of attention from US plastic surgeons. First used in hopes of reducing the pain and inflammation commonly experienced after traditional liposuction, Drs. Neira discovered that by applying lasers prior to fat removal, the fat cells became softer and easier to extract, and more importantly, the amount of post-surgery discomfort was considerably reduced.
While “laser lipo” cannot replace traditional liposuction for large-scale procedures, it’s been shown to complement other liposuction procedures quite nicely, giving patients the option of having liposuction applied to more delicate areas — the face, for example — that would otherwise go untreated due to the invasive nature of traditional treatment. Although the basic process of removing fat remains the same, the method and techniques incorporating lasers allow surgeons to produce more detail-oriented results, with faster recovery time for their patients.

With traditional liposuction, a suctioning tool known as a cannula is used to remove fat from the targeted area(s) of the body. Most methods in use today involve injection of a fluid that softens fat so it can be more easily broken down, with physical force applied to break up the fat to a workable consistency. This physical force often results in damage to internal connective tissue, blood vessels, and other surrounding tissue.
With laser lipo, however, an optical laser fiber — often no thicker than a human hair — is used that literally melts fat cells, allowing the fiber to easily slice through the target area(s) with extreme precision and far less destruction to than traditional methods. The liquefied fat is then removed through a cannula about one fourth the size of a traditional suction tube.
Laser lipo’s benefits lie in the precision it provides doctors in targeting fat cells. It provides surgeons the option of performing a major procedure using standard liposuction, and then following up with laser lipo for sculpting and fine-line detailing. This increased precision means less risk of damaging connective tissue and blood vessels typically destroyed during liposuction. (This is a major step forward for breast reduction procedures that had long been notorious for causing sensitivity loss due to nerve damage.)
Additionally, the smaller incision area means no stitches, there’s less risk of infection or scarring, and since post-surgical swelling is often the result of fluid buildup and the laser technique causes less bleeding, there’s far less chance of excessive swelling. And since laser liposuction removes fat on a comparatively smaller scale, there’s very little chance of accidentally removing too much fat, resulting in skin irregularities or other more serious health concerns.
Today, there are three major laser liposuction brands in common use: SmartLipo, Cool Lipo (or Cool Touch Lipo), and ProLipo–the primary differences being the laser frequency they use. But regardless of the devise used, most laser lipo procedures are performed in more or less the same way, with patients only requiring local anesthesia.

What is Laser Liposuction?

Laser Liposuction (laser lipo) is a surgical procedure to eradicate fatty tissue from stubborn areas that have been resistant to diet and exercise regimes.
The Fotona laser system is known to be one of the safest and most effective methods of laser liposuction. The procedure is minimally invasive and thus there is minor discomfort to the patient. This therefore allows for faster recovery time than with traditional liposuction methods.
The laser heats the fatty tissue to a specific temperature therefore allowing the fat to liquefy in the subcutaneous layer. The body then eliminates the liquefied fat naturally. There is reduced bleeding during surgery as the blood vessels coagulate due to the heat generated by the laser. Skin tightens around the area where laser liposuction is performed and thus there is no loose skin remaining after the procedure, as there would be if traditional liposuction had been utilized. A local anaesthetic will allow for pain-free surgery and thus laser lipo can be performed fairly quickly on an outpatient basis, in the doctor’s office. There may be minimal bruising and/or swelling which will disappear within a few days at which time one may return to work.
Laser liposuction can be administered to the following areas of the body: Face, neck, cheeks, chin, upper arms, back, waist, hips, tummy, inner and outer thighs, knees and ankles. Prospective candidates for Laser liposuction should be in good health and be of average body weight.
Laser liposuction has started to become popular in the last couple years due to more cosmetic surgeries offering these services. One such company the Wentworth Clinic has long experience in offering laser liposuction in the UK to its clients and offer an array of services that include fat removal and laser hair removal.
The Fotona laser system is the method utilized by the Wentworth Clinic for Laser Liposuction in the UK. For further information visit their website at www.wentwothclinic.co.uk

Celebrity Profile: Kerry Katona Plastic Surgery

Laura | Thursday, May 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

Kerry Katona before plastic surgery

The question you may be asking yourself is who in the world is Kerry Katona?
Well, for the past ten years, Kerry has been a well-known media personality, actress, author, magazine columnist, reality TV star and singer in the UK. That’s quite the extensive resume for the 32 year old. Kerry Katona also happens to be the latest in a string of celebrities who proudly show off their bodies—after having plastic surgery work done!
That’s right, after years of publicly battling the bulge and bouncing from a size 6 to 14, Kerry recently stepped out on the red carpet in a pair of tight leggings and form-fitting vest, showing off some toned new curves that a skilled plastic surgeon was able to achieve.
The young—get this—mother of four, recently revealed that she was finally fed up with those annoying pockets of fat that would not disappear regardless of how she attempted to rid of them with her diet or exercise. Kerry booked herself an appointment with a plastic surgeon and just a few weeks later the only thing that remains big on her is that smile on her face as she beams at the results.
In an interview with OK! Magazine just a little over a week ago, she describes

Kerry Katona after plastic surgery

Laser lipolysis left me black and blue - but my thighs have never looked better

By Leah Hardy
UPDATED: 15:14 GMT, 25 January 2010

They say that after a certain age you have to choose between your face and your bottom. Diet with sufficient savagery to tame your spreading rear, and your face ends up gaunt and old.
Only, as I've discovered, that doesn't have to be true. You can have thinner thighs and a smaller bottom without dieting or exercise - and without getting a haggard face.
The secret? Liposculpture, a new, super-safe form of laser liposuction that can really change your body, almost instantly.

Before (left) and after (right): Leah Hardy tackled her saddlebags - the fat at the top of her thighs - with Advanced Laser Lipolysis

I've never liked my shape. I'm reasonably tall - 5ft 8in - and as a size 12, not fat, but I longed for thinner thighs and leaner hips.
I thought I was a typical British pear, a full size bigger around my bottom half than my top. But according to Trinny and Susannah, I'm really a 'vase' shape, meaning the saddlebag area at the tops of my thighs is wider than my hips.
It's a shape that means pencil skirts are out of the question and one that made me feel lumpy in slinky dresses and carrot-legged in skinny jeans.
I could diet, but frankly, it's hard enough work staying the size I am. Exercise? I hate it. Running is depressing, dangerous after dark and boring as hell.
Classes and gym memberships are just as miserable, and expensive and time consuming. Also, I've spent serious money on gym memberships and personal trainers over the years with remarkably little effect.
As I headed into my 40s, I realised the only way I could reshape my body was with lipo. But I also know that traditional liposuction is probably the most dangerous cosmetic surgery operation out there, mostly because of being under general anaesthetic for hours. With two young children, I simply couldn't justify even a tiny risk of dying for the sake of thinner thighs.

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But then I learned about surgeon Dr Alan Kingdon. Using local anaesthetic and lasers to liquefy fat, he could resculpt my rear without putting me under - and he was reputed to be one of the very best in the business, with more than 20 years of experience in lipo. I made an appointment to see him at his clinic in West London.
On meeting Dr Kingdon, I immediately felt safe and reassured. He was one of the first surgeons to introduce lipo to the UK. Later, he ditched the general anaesthetic and introduced 'tumescent liposuction', in which a large volume of diluted anaesthetic plus adrenaline is injected into the fatty tissue so the fat can be removed painlessly.
Without the risks of open wounds and general anaesthetic, the procedure became - so he claims - '100 per cent safe' and made even more effective by adding the power of lasers.
A few years ago, Smart Lipo was big news. Lasers ruptured fat cells and liquefied the fat which was then supposed to be gradually metabolised in the body. Trouble was, all too often it did not work.
So instead of leaving the liquidised fat in the body, Dr Kingdon realised that it would be better to suck it all out. The new technique is called Advanced Laser Lipolysis.
But was it right for me? Dr Kingdon does an extensive medical check, asks me dozens of health-related questions, and I have blood taken to ensure I'm healthy.

WHO KNEW?

A staggering 87 per cent of women hate their thighs

This type of lipo isn't for obese people, but for those with stubborn areas of fat on saddlebags, tummies, hips or bingo wings that just won't go. He then asks me to strip to my knickers, so he can have a look at my rear and thighs.
Then, to my horror, he takes some photos and flashes them up on a computer screen in his consulting room. I point out he really should offer middle-aged patients like me anaesthetic before showing them their brightly lit back view.
Despite my strong instinct to put my hands over my eyes, he insists I look at the images and points out that what I thought was the problem - fat at the side of my thighs - is actually caused by fat at the back. My saddlebags are merely, sadly, the overspill.

It's hugely depressing, but the upside is that Dr Kingdon says he can do something about it. Because the fat is localised, and I'm not hugely overweight, he is confident he can make a real difference. I book in.
Because I don't need a general anaesthetic or even heavy sedation, the procedure will be done at a specialist beauty clinic licensed for surgical procedures which are done under sterile conditions, not a hospital, and should take only a few hours.
On the day, I feel nervous but not frightened. I'm asked to strip down to a paper G-string and put on a surgical gown. I lie down on a well-padded couch.
To start, Dr Kingdon gives me injections of local anaesthetic before making a tiny incision a couple of millimetres long and starts to pour a mixture of saline, anaesthetic and adrenaline into my lower body. The adrenaline closes off local blood vessels, so there is very little bleeding and it's easier to get at the fat.
The injections hurt a bit, as does introducing the tubes to irrigate my body with saline, but I'm soon numb. As Dr Kingdon starts to liquefy my fat with the laser, it's hard to work out exactly where the sensation of pressure is coming from.

Surgery lite: The procedure was done at a specialist beauty clinic under sterile conditions, not a hospital, and only took a few hours

Occasionally, the probe strays into an unanaesthetised area and the sudden sensation makes me leap like a fish. Dr Kingdon has his sleeves rolled up and is clearly working hard, pumping the laser probe and then removing the yellow fat which glugs down clear plastic tubes into plastic bags. I start by chatting but, as time passes, I become tired, sometimes falling asleep.
By the end, two-and-a half-hours later, I am shaking and shivering. I'm lying in a pool of cold saline and feel cold and exhausted. And then, finally, it's all over. There is nearly one-and-a-half litres of pure, liquid, banana-yellow fat in two plastic bags - about the most that could be removed using this technique.
I'm warned I won't have lost any weight. All that fat weighs only around 2lb, and water is much heavier than fat, so the saline still in me will weigh more.
Dr Kingdon's nurse then starts squeezing fluid out of my thighs from the tiny incision he has made. The saline squirts out like water out of a whale's blowhole.
I'm covered with thick surgical dressings and plasters, and I'm inelegantly shoehorned into a giant elastic pair of leggings to help prevent swelling. Then I stagger into a pair of dark coloured loose trousers - I can now see why they are specified - and drink hot sweet tea, which has a remarkably restorative effect.
Suddenly, I burst out laughing. I am swelling up, and in my awful flesh-coloured elastic leggings and dressings I look as if I am wearing a Little Britain-style fatsuit. It seems so ironic that, after all I've gone through, I'm fatter than I was at the beginning.
The clinic calls me a taxi, in which I promptly fall asleep.
At home, I can't wait to go to bed. My husband is on story duty with the children as I take the first of the five days' worth of antibiotics and a painkiller and fall asleep. I wake in the small hours in a pool of liquid that they call 'seepage'.
The next day - Friday - I wake feeling OK, but very tired. I sleep late, but realise I have volunteered to go into the children's school to help with 'French Day'. I find my loosest, lightest, dark-linen Jigsaw trousers.
Jeans are out of the question, not just because I can't fit into them, but because the pressure of the fabric on my tender flesh is painful.
I manage the afternoon, teaching the children a few words of French - and to my surprise sitting and crouching on the floor with the little ones. I'm in no real pain.

'Two days later I can already see I'm a different shape - my saddlebags have pretty much vanished. I hope my inner thighs will soon follow'

By Saturday, I can pull on my thinnest Lycra skinny jeans and I've stopped 'seeping'.
I run around all day, taking my daughter to ballet lessons, have lunch with a friend, and even go to a party with my husband in the evening. I can't drink because of the antibiotics, but that doesn't bother me. I feel absolutely fine.
The next day I take the children to a museum and walk about all day. I'm fine but craving a bath - they are forbidden for five days. I can already see I'm a different shape - my saddlebags have pretty much vanished. I hope my inner thighs will soon follow suit.
On Monday, I think I'm not too bruised, but then catch sight of the back of my inner thighs which are black. I look like I've been run over by a truck. I can see lots of bright red tiny incisions, too. My black, blue, green and yellow skin looks unreal, like that of a corpse pulled out of the river on Silent Witness. Bikini-ready, I'm not.
My legs don't hurt when I'm sitting still and barely hurt when walking around (though running is not recommended) but getting up from sitting down is sore. Unfortunately, I don't have the lifestyle that allows for feeling sorry for myself, so, puffy and swollen, I get on with doing everything I normally do.
On Tuesday, I feel even more swollen. My skin is tender and in the evening I feel an intense itch on my right inner thigh. Walking is a bit sore, as if I have bad sunburn or overdid it at aerobics.
By day six, I feel fatter than ever. My jeans feel super tight on my tender, bruised skin. I have gained half an inch on my right thigh. Even though I know it is fluid and swelling, it is pretty dispiriting.
By day ten, I'm still sore, and when my daughter asks me to chase her, I simply can't, as it's too uncomfortable. But my outer thighs are much smoother. I've sneakily swapped my nearly full-length elastic leggings for knee-length M&S support knickers, which are so comfortable I get hooked on them. Sexy they ain't.
After a fortnight, I find myself trying on clothes and, yes, I already have a smoother line from my hips to thighs, while my bottom is smaller and more lifted. I am delighted. My husband agrees I am noticeably thinner.
A month later, I can slip into trousers that never used to fit me, while jeans that used to be tight are now loose around my bottom. I have even thrown away one pair of trousers that are now ludicrously baggy, and I no longer feel I have to wear long, loose tops over everything.
Would I do it again? Hell yes! It works better than endless running round the park. It may leave you looking, for a while, as if you've been hit by a truck, but your thighs will thank for for it, big time.
Advanced Laser Lipolysis, from £2,400: Contact Dr Alan Kingdon at The Cosmetic Surgery Clinic, visit cosmeticsurgeryclinic.co.uk; 020 8747 4746.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1244040/Laser-lipo-left-black-blue---thighs-looked-better.html#ixzz1x1sBiyei

Laser Liposuction

A Unique, Targeted Approach for Better Body Contouring with SlimLipo
Sophisticated clients are becoming more educated on the benefits of advanced, minimally invasive procedures like laser liposuction¹. Men and women want to look better and be more sculpted, without the sizable tell-tale bruises that scream "I've had work done!" The SlimLipo^™ body sculpting laser puts the power of well-tolerated procedures in your hands.
Palomar has enhanced traditional liposuction with SlimLipo, our body contouring laser that uses optimal wavelengths to selectively "melt" fat and coagulate soft tissue. The result? Laser liposuction that delivers consistent aesthetic outcomes. More importantly, clients typically experience a more rapid recovery and results that will have their friends lining up at your doorstep.
SlimLipo offers a laser-based enhancement to traditional liposuction that's easier on you and your clients. Your clients will benefit from smaller incisions, less bruising and less blood loss, all resulting in easier treatments and rapid recovery. And you'll both appreciate the smoother, improved skin that can be achieved with SlimLipo laser-assisted lipolysis.
1. Laser-assisted lipolysis followed by aspiration.

How SlimLipo Body Contouring Works:
Laser liposuction with SlimLipo effectively treats areas of the body where there is unwanted fat, such as the abdomen, arms, flanks, thighs, neck, bra fat and chest.
The SlimLipo laser uses dual wavelengths of 924 nm and 975 nm to selectively target fat and gently "melt" it with less side effects and enhanced results.
Selective photothermolysis frees the lipids contained in the adipose tissue for easy aspiration. The result is less tissue trauma, significant fat removal and controlled tissue heating through laser-assisted lipolysis.
The Palomar solution for laser liposuction and body contouring requires:
SlimLipo

Benefits for Clients:

Body sculpting through laser-assisted lipolysis.
Faster healing - Smaller incisions and wavelength selectivity mean less bruising, pain, blood loss and swelling.
Smoother skin with less contour deformities.
Less downtime - Many can resume normal activities within days.

Benefits for Practitioners:

Speed - Significantly faster than competing laser lipolysis devices.
Superior visualization of the treatment tip - Aiming beam shows you where you are while treating.
Less operator fatigue - Minimal amount of effort to move the SlimLipo treatment tip through fibrous tissue.
Ability to treat those who are not normally treated with traditional liposuction - Contour deformities and smaller treatment areas are easily addressed.

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