Who is a good candidate for a liposuction? People that have located grease in excess or for those that desire to mold the figure in specific places such as: abdomen and waist; cheeks and double chin; thorax and mammary region; back; maxillary region; hips, external and internal thighs; legs, internal face of knee and arms; calf and ankles.  It can be completed in several zones of the body at the same time and jointly with another esthetic plastic surgery.  Liposuction should not be considered as a replacement for the total loss of weight, neither is an effective treatment for cellulitis.  Best candidates are people of relatively normal weight, but with excess of located grease.

What does the consultation consist of? In the first consultation, Doctor Andrés Mejía evaluates the general state of health and determines if the patient is suitable or not to complete the procedure.  All doubts are clarified, the expectations are defined; the procedure and type of anesthesia is explained same as the institution where the intervention will be carried out. Depending on the elasticity of the skin, the weight and the patient health condition, it is estimated the amount of grease that will be subtracted.  This latte issue if the patient plans to lose or to gain weight in the future. 

How is the procedure carried out? The liposuction is an ambulatory plastic surgery that depending on the volume of grease to extract and the zones to intervene has duration from one to three hours. It is carried out with a suction cannula (hollow and small pipe) that extracts the grease.  This one is introduced through one or more small incisions near the area to treat.  Incisions are generally less than 5 millimeters and are located as discreetly as possible, often inside duplicities of the skin or contour lines. Depending on the zones to operate the type of anesthesia will be chosen as follow: