Liposuction: Q&A
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If you get liposuction in your legs, but still unhappy, can you get another liposuction procedure on your legs? Does it cause more scar tissue?
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Liposuction Causes Scar Tissue
Liposuction does cause scar tissue, and this scar at the least makes a secondary liposuction more demanding physically. If more liposuction is needed and the skin is of good enough quality, more liposuction can be done.
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Liposuction and Scar Tissue
Whenever a wound is created in the body, wound healing will create scar tissue. With liposuction, you will see a few short scars at the insertion points for the suction instrument. However, scar tissue will form inside within the fatty layer that was suctioned. Interestingly, scar tissue usually contracts over time, and this process within the fat might actually help tighten the overlying skin a little. Although this internal scarring might increase the resistance...
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Secondary liposuction is occasionally indicated but is somewhat harder due to scarring.
All operations leave at least some scar tissue. Lipsuction is no different and that scarring complicates revisional surgery.
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Liposuction Revision
Even with the best of technique, it is possible to have results that would benefit from further liposuction. A touch-up procedure (typically after 9 months) is a great way to improve a 90% result to a 95% result (or better), and I wouldn't worry about creating more scar tissue.
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Liposuction causes scarring, but repeat lipo is generally possible
Liposuction does cause scarring (ALL surgery results in some degree of scarring). Certainly there are small scars visible on the skin where the liposuction cannula is inserted, but there is also scarring created inside. Most of the time, this internal scar tissue does not preclude a repeat liposuction procedure. Liposuction should only be performed by a surgeon trained in its use. When improperly performed, liposuction can be disfiguring. I recommend finding a...
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Liposuction does cause scar tissue
Any invasive procedure - yes, liposuction is "invasive" despite what many tell you - will cause scar tissue. The scar tissue after liposuction is usually minor and does not prevent additional liposuction in the future. Poor technique may result in sever scar tissue which may present as firm lumps and bumps that take a long time to go away.
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Liposuction and Scar Tissue
Liposuction causes scar tissue because 100% of wounds heal by forming scar tissue. Scar tissue is collagen basically. The good news is that scar tissue does form because without it no wound would heal. Liposuction is fairly invasive. Just think a steel cannula is placed into your fat tissue and possibly 10 to 15 lbs of fat are removed. That is real class A trauma. The word minimally invasive in liposuction I...
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Does Liposuction cause scar tissue???
Hi, thanks for posting your question. Liposuction in a nutshell involves removing fat via a cannula attached to a suction apparatus. There are many different ways of obtaining this ie Suction assisted Liposuction (manual action from a cannula moving back and forth) Vaser (ultrasonic energy to emulsify and fragment the fat), SmartLipo (Laser energy to melt fat), Body Jet (Pressurized water to break apart fat globules, Tickle and PAL (Cannula moves). The commonality is at the...
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