AirSculpt is an FDA-approved liposuction procedure developed by Dr. Aaron Rollins, a surgeon in Beverly Hills, California. It’s offered exclusively at AirSculpt centers.
During a traditional liposuction procedure, the surgeon uses a cannula to manually scrape and break up excess fat before sucking it out. This can cause significant trauma to the surrounding tissue, which is why many patients need two weeks of downtime for bruising and swelling to resolve.
An AirSculpt procedure is different in that the proprietary handpiece and thin, vibrating cannula breaks up the individual fat cells far more gently, with minimal “shearing,” before sucking them out. This minimizes trauma to adjacent tissues, and some patients need as little as one to two days of downtime.
Another benefit of AirSculpt technology is that the fat cells remain viable for fat transfer to other body areas. It's commonly performed in combination with other plastic surgery procedures, such as Brazilian butt lift (which AirSculpt centers call a Power BBL Brazilian butt lift or AirSculpt BBL), breast augmentation (called Up A Cup), or hip augmentation (the HipFlip for HipDips).
The vibrations of the AirSculpt cannula also generate frictional heat, providing mild skin tightening benefits.