Is it expected that a vacuum will be used for liposuction?

Suction and power assisted liposuction requires a vacuum to remove the fat to contour your body.  The machine is only a tool for extracting the fat, the procedure requires finesse and skill.  Liposuction is often referred to as liposculpture because of the care and precision most surgeons will pay to your final contour result. If you go to my website you will find a video describing the procedure in detail.

Vacuum, or aspiration using negative air pressure, removes fat in liposuction. This actually is a gentle treatment of fat! Studies show that many adipocytes, or fat cells, live after removal. This is less traumatic than other removal methods. Normally, patients can be very comfortable during the liposuction with only having tumescent local anesthetic.

Liposuction = Lipovacuum. I like the sound of that! IT is actually a more specific and scientific description of the procedure. The question is how much vacuum and with what instrument or device. The devil is in the details. Surgeons spend hours debating the benefits of high versus low suction and various cannulae to extract the fat.

Liposuction is done with a vacuum type system that allows the fat to be sucked  into a tube as the tube passes over the area being treated.  It is usually not very painful.  Most patients complain of soreness like a tough work out at the gym.

As the term liposuction implies, fat is ultimately removed by negative pressure caused by a vacuum device. It may not look very glamorous or eloquent but it is very effective. Technically the negative pressure causes the ease of vaporization of the water component of fat to escape more easily. That may make you feel better about the process.