Diet and exercise are the best way to lose weight, but achieving your goal requires a long-term effort. Moreover, only much diet and exercise are difficult to make a good shape at this. 'Liposuction' is helpful for this situation.

Liposuction is a surgery that makes a small hole in your skin and inserts a cannula between the dermis and muscle layers. Negative pressure is applied to the cannula to remove the fatty tissue between the dermis and muscle. Recently various devices have supported melting the fats with vibrating or turning ultrasound or radiofrequency for more effective Liposuction. There is a laser that helps melt fat with high absorption of fat.

Liposuction was introduced in the late 1990s, and since the early 2000s, there are actively operated. Removing much fat at once attract people.

However, Liposuction is a surgery that only relies on the hand's senses because the suction area is not visible, so some doctors are afraid of the surgery. Suppose the surgery is performed incorrectly, and the skin and muscles with many nerves and blood vessels are touched. In that case, severe pain and bruising could occur. In some cases, the skin surface becomes bumpy or sunken due to indiscriminate surgery without considering the individual body shape or amount of fat.

Recently, a lipolysis injection or the invasive obesity and diet treatment with short downtime and less risk have been widespread. Liposuction seems like an old-fashioned treatment. However, Liposuction has substantial benefits that are not replaceable from other treatments.

Dr. Young Shin Cho, a Young Clinic founder, explained, "lipolysis injection is not a treatment for breaking or destroying fat. Obesity and diet devices target to reduce the whole size by attacking fat in the deep area; this causes difficulty in making a beautiful shape in a specific area. If you get liposuction 'properly,' it will be the best way for you. Liposuction provides removing fats from the body area you desire, making the desired body shape too.  

Diet only is difficult to remove fats and make a good shape. Diet removes fats from your whole body, so it removes the fats in the specific area, like the breast, which you don’t want.

Due to this point, Liposuction differentiates from other lipolysis and diet. It could remove the fats from the body area you desire and also transplant the removed fats to the site you want to make volume. Suppose you are slim but have fats in a specific area. In that case, Liposuction is operated only locally, which we call 'Mini liposuction.' It is difficult to control because the fats locate right under the skin, but we can remove the cellulite together. Thus, Dr. Cho defines Liposuction as making a beautiful body supplementary to diet.

There might be sagging before the surgery of less elasticity or removing a lot of fats at once. It recovers with various tightening programs. AccuSculpt is a laser with high absorption of fat and water; it removes fats and improves sagging skin. In case that needs a lifting effect, the HIFU device is combined.

Liposuction supports a beautiful body shape but can’t make a ‘perfect’ body shape. Diet and exercise are necessary after the surgery.

Dr. Cho emphasized, “After Liposuction, the arms, legs, and buttocks do not gain weight. The torso, such as the abdomen or back, is an area where you gain weight again, even after Liposuction. Therefore, the torso body can be completed only by exercising in parallel. You can get a much prettier line if you go on a diet after building your body." "Diet is also important. If you don't like diet and exercise, you won't lose weight and only gain muscle. The body swells when the muscles are stretched while the subcutaneous fat is intact. You can also care for your health while making your body look beautiful by eating together."

She added, “Liposuction is not a fundamental solution for obesity or gaining weight, but the fact that you got a liposuction surgery is a motivation for the will of exercise or diet” and “People start active body shape management after a liposuction surgery.”

As we mentioned earlier, Liposuction is a complex surgery requiring a doctor's sense of aesthetics and hands.

Dr. Cho advised, "Liposuction is important to remove the fats correctly because the surgery operates the site invisible. There should not be pain or a bruise. It can be a bruise if you remove much fat, but the bruise is blue or too much, which means the operator touched muscle or fascia. When Liposuction is performed properly, pain is less, not a big bruise. Patients should be careful to select a clinic."

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