Why is It That It Takes 3 to 6 Months Following Vaser for Final Results?

Liposuction is a specific surgical wound made in a controlled fashion.  All surgery takes one year....facelift, liposuction, tummy tuck, cancer surgery, gall badder and so on.   When you twist and tear ankle ligaments  in you ankle knee or hip it take one year to 100% heal.   All healing takes one year.  This is a well established fact of medical science.  There is no way to speed healing. Zero.  You can hinder healing by excessive early activity,  by smoking, drinking  excessive alcohol, sun damage, etc. So what happens in ANY WOUND ......and liposuction of any sort is a wound.   Initially blood comes into a wounded area.  The blood forms a healing clot.  The blood establishes defenses against infection, fibroblasts and white cell come in.  White cells fight any infection threat.  Fibroblasts lay down collagen or scar tissue that makes a wound strong.   Wound contract and become firm and  will later relax.   In the wounded area there are trillions of tiny lymphatic vessels that are scattered to the wind by the  liposuction injury and are no longer connected and no longer function.  The lymphatic non function causes causes swelling. There s no way to speed lymphatic re anastomosis.   When the lymphatics eventually heal and reconnect the fluid moves out as normal.  Gradually swelling gos away.   You can temporarily increase swelling by salt ingestion.  Temporary,  but salt takes 4 days to go away in the urine.   So this whole process takes a year and when you look at a wound under a microscope this activity can be seen and does not stabilize until one year.  Surgery is Day one.  Swelling maximizes at 36 to 48 hours and then subsides.  Ay 6 weeks 60% of swelling is gone but then things get slow.  By 3 to 4 months 80 % of swelling is gone.  By 6 to 7 months 90% of swelling is gone.  You lose the last 10% in the months 7 to 12.   There is NO WAY TO SPEED THIS.   There are many ways to hinder it.  You get the best healing by not doing anything to hurt healing such as salt or tobacco etc.   Patients seem to resist accepting the wound healing process and there are many questions about this on RealSelf.   One year to completion and there is NO WAY AROUND THIS.   Like the sun rises in the East and sets in the West,  the healing process takes 6 to 12 months to completion.  There is a difference in individuals but that is mainly orientated to good health.   Healthy people heal better than ill smokers but even they heal eventually.  The good news is that plastic surgery patients are healthy and are 90% by 6 months.  My Best,  Dr C

Although many patients will see results in 1-3 months, full results including tissue tightening take months to occur. Why? the body must heal from the surgery and this takes 3-6 months