Topic of Interest Liposuction Techniques Improve Many men and women have stubborn pockets of fat that they can't seem to lose no matter how far they jog or how carefully they watch their diet. A new liposuction procedure is available at Columbus Regional Hospital that removes this unwanted fat better than previous liposuction procedures and with less trauma to the body.
Liposuction is the most common cosmetic procedure performed in the United States.
The number of procedures performed has increased 200 percent since 1992. While most patients are women, the number of men undergoing liposuction has tripled over the past five years. Liposuction techniques improve Traditional liposuction requires large, rigid cannulas, or tubes, that are inserted through the skin literally to suck out excess fat. During UAL, surgeons use special cannulas that emit ultrasound waves to emulsify, or melt, the excess fat. The liquefied fat is then suctioned through the cannula.