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I Dont Understand the Difference? (Narrowing in on the Doctor to Use for Liposuction)
I am considering two doctors for liposuction of the flanks. Both use tumescent, but only one uses anesthesia? How does work? Does that mean that the doctor that uses anestesia uses a bigge canule?
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AlisaKotova
in Calgary, AB
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Docs who still use gen. anesthesia tend to use bigger canulas.
Most lipo docs who do the best work tend to use micro canulas and do it under local anesthesia. The smaller the canulas, then the smoother the results. Docs who still use gen. anesthesia (which we all did 28 yrs ago) tend to still use the larger canulas and tend to not get the best results because of it. It only makes sense. Trust your doc because even the gen. plastic surgeons who typically still do a little lipo on the side can do a decent job with their old methods but if you...
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Narrowing on the Doctor to use for lipo
I do all but chins and small touchups under general anesthesia as I find that patients are uncomfortable without it and surgery takes much longer. The risk with general anesthesia are very small.
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Liposuction Anesthesia
The use of tumescence is helpful with pain control. However, I don't believe tumescence eliminates all pain during liposuction. I believe that additional anesthesia ensures that the patient is as comfortable as possible.
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Both Doctors may do a great job. General anesthesia increases your risk of complications.
General anesthesia increases your risk of serious complications. This is the reason that I do all of my cases using only oral sedation and tumescent anesthesia.
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If it were me, I'd want anesthesia and a board-certified plastic surgeon
There are many people out there who absolutely CANNOT tolerate liposuction under straight tumescent anesthesia. It is either just too difficult to get the area anesthetized or they are too anxious about the procedure. We do all types of anesthesia, but patients are by far the most comfortable with monitored anesthesia (MAC).
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Birmingham Plastic Surgeon
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Liposuction and anesthesia
I prefer to perform liposuction using an anesthesiologist to sedate my patients and make them more comfortable. I do not think that patients are as comfortable under straight local.
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Liposuction
As for the details of the anesthesia, you need to discuss this with the doctors. It seems you had a very limited discussion regarding the surgery or you forgot.
As for the size of the cannula, most of us use 3 and 4 mm cannula. occaisionaly on the very abundant fat may start with 5 mm cannula
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
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