Abdominal liposuctionin Lyon et Geneva
Significant factors, such as a sedentary lifestyle, stress or an unhealthy diet, can be responsible for local fatty deposits that are difficult to get rid of, despite a healthy diet or intensive physical exercise.
Liposuction, which is the extraction of the fat from the subcutaneous deep layers, can solve these problems.
A pre-operative consultation is essential to assess the subcutaneous fat layer and to confirm that the excess deposits correspond to the type of fat that liposuction can remove, rather than to intraabdominal fat, which can only be dealt with by means of a healthy diet.
Procedure
The surgery can be performed under local, general or regional anaesthetic in conjunction with a spinal block, depending on the wishes of the patient and the extent of the body areas to be treated.
It is an outpatient procedure lasting for one to one and a half hours, depending on the technique used; the patient can be discharged later that day. The insertion of the subcutaneous cannula, that extracts the excess fat, is done through incisions of a few millimetres in size that are made in some invisible places.
Recovery
In addition to the absorbable sutures and waterproof dressings applied on the incisions, an abdominal compression garment must be worn for three weeks. Bruises appearing after few days will disappear in three to four weeks.
The early oedema developing on the treated areas tends to prevent the appreciation of the final result, which will be fully noticeable 6 months later.
The recovery is straightforward and the patient can resume professional activity within 48 hours and physical exercise after one month.
