Differences Between Liposuction Types

Two basic types are used in liposuction - the Tumescent technique and Ultrasonic liposuction. On the whole, they have several similarities but are different in some important points. Both types of liposuction consist of similar surgical elements, and if you use ultrasound liposuction, you have to include tumescent as well.

The tumescent type of liposuction is known under many names: standard liposuction, lipoplasty, liposculpture, or suction-assisted lipoplasty. In was first practiced in the USA in the year 1982. The method is as follows: first, the fat is infiltrated with tumescent fluid, which contains saline saluted with local anaesthetic. After being filled up with the fluid, the fat is pulled out with tiny rods or by making small incisions. Scars are hidden with natural skin creases. Tumescent method alleviates pain, as it contains anaesthetic, and reduces blood loss.

Ultrasonic is the other type of liposuction and it also starts with injecting tumescent fluid to make the fat stiff. But from that point the two types differ: with ultrasonic, the fat is liquefied by high-frequency ultrasonic energy, emitted from a thin rod, and then is taken out of the body using the rod as a tiny pipette.

These two types of liposuction have several derivative types that are getting extremely popular as they combine the strong points of the basic types. With the further development of higher technologies we are surely to be encountered with new and modern types of liposuction in the years to come.

Suction-Assisted Liposuction: This is the combinative usage of tiny cannula inserted into the fat area by small incisions. A pressure is exercised over the place in order to drag the fat out. Another type of liposuction is called Ultrasound-Assisted Liposuction. From the top of the cannula are emitted ultrasound waves that liquefy the fat before sucking it out.

External Ultrasound-assisted Liposuction. This type of liposuction uses ultrasound waves that carry out the procedure by changing the structure of the fat cells. Then a tumescent fluid is injected to transmit the external waves and the fat is taken out.

Power-assisted Liposuction is a type of liposuction that takes the fat out by producing gentle pushes into and out of the skin. The tip of a cannula is the best instrument for doing this. The fat is gradually pulled out after several attempts. For more information click Liposuction Types

VASER-assisted Liposuction: the last type of liposuction is the most high-tech developed. It uses constant stream of ultrasonic energy being inflicted on the fat area. The fat sells are broken up by the ultrasound waves pressure and then taken out by suction.

Article by Robbie Darmona - an article writer who writes on a wide variety of subjects. For more information click Liposuction Types

Head Lice
By Rexanne Mancini

Here’s a pleasant subject … LOL! Better to laugh about it than fall to your knees, weeping from sheer panic and horror if and when your child brings this dreaded but very common liability of childhood home.

Yes, my kids have had head lice. No, they are not dirty or poorly groomed, nor do they hang out with dirty kids. How these perfectly awful little stinkers found their way into our home was on my older daughter’s head, courtesy of one of her classmates. As soon as we managed to eradicate the first offense, my younger daughter started scratching her bean, thank you. This went on for 6 gruesome weeks, passing from one kid to the other. I ran more than 90 loads of laundry, destroying most of our better linens, clothes and comforters by boiling them in the hottest water the washing machine could muster. We sprayed every inch of our home with pediculicide. We washed our hair daily with lice-killing shampoo until we had blisters from the strong poisons needed to try to kill the vermin and their precious eggs. We pulled nits from our daughter’s L O N G hair for hours at a time, quarantined every stuffed animal and doll with hair for weeks ... all to no avail.

My children were traumatized, I was reduced to a crying, hysterical bug-fearing heap and our 19-year-old cat was tortured by twice-weekly flea baths that he appreciated about as much as a bowl of steamed rice.

I’m sorry ... I wish I had an answer, a cure ... some hope to offer. I don’t.

After week 6 of lice-induced panic, we finally set off flea bombs in every room of the house, and then fled to my mother’s for two hours while the canisters sprayed poison over every inch of our furniture and belongings. Warily, we stepped back into our home where we were greeted by a coat of greasy goop to wipe off every square inch of exposed possessions. I then called my daughter’s school and made it very clear that she would not be returning until I was guaranteed the outbreak was completely eliminated from her classroom. She was home for two more weeks before the school nurse assured me she had sent every child with nits home to live the torture we had. We had finally managed to eradicate the plague. This was more than three years ago ... can you tell it’s still as fresh a trauma in my heart and soul as it was then? Believe it. It is.

I have scoured the Internet, reading every article I could find about head lice. I wanted to be armed and prepared for battle if this horror ever cloaks our lives again. No such luck ... everyone out there is as resigned to the meek inheriting our heads as I am not prepared to be. There are a few ideas floating around that I would have tried had I known about them.

If you have boys, you can get away with shaving their heads. Yes, this sounds gruesome but you’ll be forever grateful I gave you permission to goof up your son’s hair if he does manage to bring holocaust into your home. If you have daughters, I’m sorry. My heart goes out to you. You can’t really shave a girl’s head in this day and age, although a family friend, a doctor from Italy, recommended we do just that. I giggled, thinking he was sooo from the old school ... I giggle no more! But we didn’t shave our daughters’ heads. We suffered untold hell instead.

Apparently, lice have become immune to the various pediculicide treatments on the market. There are quite a few brands of pediculicide shampoo, conditioner and room spray, all with weakening power against the bolstered immune system lice have developed. I’ve heard that tea tree oil, olive oil and rosemary oil are helpful in nixing the little buggers. Hairspray and hair coloring are also good deterrents. Unless you’re ready to dye and spray your kid’s heads, this isn’t an option but you could schedule a dye job early if you color your own hair. Ya know what? I’d color my daughter’s hair. What’s worse? Bathing their little heads in surefire poison? How bad could a bottle of hair dye be compared to insecticide? If it works, count your blessing and wait for it to grow out.

One recommendation from my children’s school is to wash their hair vigorously as soon as they come home if there is an outbreak of lice in their classroom. Sounds reasonable. If they did manage to bring home an unwelcome guest, washing their hair and scalp immediately might remove the louse before it has a chance to lay eggs.

By all means, be informed. If you never have this massive nightmare visit your home, you’re ten steps ahead in the life of a parent. If you’ve lived it, you’re probably shuddering at the thought of another go-around. If you have head lice breeding in your home as you read this, my heart goes out to you. Know that you have millions of understanding parents who pity you, too! However, the parents of your child’s classmates will positively hate you if you knowingly send your kid to school with head lice. Don’t even think about it ...

Copyright – 2000-2002 – Rexanne Mancini
Rexanne Mancini is the mother of two daughters, Justice and Liberty. She is a novelist, freelance writer and maintains an extensive yet informal parenting and family web site, Rexanne.com – http://www.rexanne.com -Visit her site for good advice, award-winning Internet holiday pages and some humor to help you cope. Subscribe to her free newsletter, Rexanne’s Web Review, for a monthly dose of Rexanne: http://www.rexanne.com/rwr-archives.html

The Advantages of Tumescent Liposuction

Tumescent liposuction is considered to be the safest type of liposuction. It was first used by the dermatologist Dr. Jeffry Klein several years ago. The tumescent technique reduces to a large extent most drawbacks of other liposuction procedures. It is performed by injecting large quantities of dilute solution into the fattened areas. This solution consists of lidocaine, a local anaesthetic, combined with epinephrine, a drug that shrinks the capillaries. This injection of tumescent anesthesia makes for several benefits: first, it minimises post-operative discomfort, and second, it reduces the bleeding during the operation.

Ordinary liposuction techniques were performed on many patients and they were all complaining about the post-operative disorders like easy bruising and swelling after the operation. The tumescent liposuction significantly reduces the risk of bruises and swollen areas on the body to occur, because it does not use general anesthesia. Due to the local anesthesia, which takes 12 to 18 hours to subside, a post-operative discomfort is treated using only the slight Tylenol as medication. With tumescent technique you will feel no post-operative nausea, as with other types of liposuction using general anesthesia. Tumescent liposuction also reduces the bleeding during the operation. Many patients are healthy enough to return to work and manage with their daily activities only several days after the operation. For more information click Tumescent Liposuction

Apart from the avoided discomfort, tumescent liposuction is also the fastest technique when it comes to the results to show. Almost 90 % of the patients notice changes in their silhouette several weeks after the operation itself. But the natural post-operative swelling takes some months to subside before the final results are appreciated by everyone. Let's put a few words about the technique itself. Tumescent liposuction removes the fat by suctioning small "tunnels" through the fat. Tumescent technique does not use a big cannula, because it is clumsier, it leaves scars and many skin cells can be defected. Tunneling provides insignificant infliction over the skin cells and protects their fibrous attachment to the deeper layers of muscle cells. By fibres that connect skin cells with muscles, the skin retains its elasticity and can easily recover after the operation. Thus the tumescent liposuction helps to minimise the risks of post-operative irregularities or rippling of the skin. Another thing to have in mind when using liposuction, is that the technique itself does not reduce "cellulite". Cellulite results from the pull of fibrous tissue that attaches the skin to the underlying muscles. Tumescent liposuction can do some improvement on the cellulite, but it may as well fail, because the aim of the liposuction is different. The side effects that a liposuction operation can cause vary from bruising to temporary numbness. Of course, in every technique small irregularities of the skin are possible to occur. This can easily be improved by several touch-up procedures. They will enhance to the maximum the patient's good looks after the operation. But viewed in overall, tumescent liposuction is very safe for the patient. It eliminates the risk of blood clots, infections and allergic reactions as well.

The fat cells removed from your body DO NOT grow back. Your body silhouette looks slimmer and that is permanent. If you gain or lose weight afterwards, that will be naturally incorporated in your body. Tumescent liposuction is the perfect option for anyone who wants to look elegant and it does not harm the organism.

Article by Robbie Darmona - an article writer who writes on a wide variety of subjects. For more information click Tumescent Liposuction

Different Liposuction Techniques

Ever since the introduction of liposuction in the far-off 1974, there have been invented many liposuction techniques. Different surgeons often combine different liposuction techniques during the operation itself, as the combination of various methods often leads to better results.

Many things have changed after liposuction was first introduced and this kind of operation is becoming increasingly popular, as the skills of the surgeons and the different techniques are improving throughout decades.

There are four basic types of liposuction techniques, namely Dry Liposuction, Wet Technique, Super-Wet Technique and Tumescent Liposuction.

The first liposuction technique is called Dry or Traditional Liposuction. It originates from the procedure of lipectomy, which involves suction of tissues with a standard cannula. The operation is accomplished without using tumescing fluid. It comprises putting high negative pressure on the tissue and sucking out the fat. The bad after-effects this liposuction technique causes are substantial blood loss, necrosis, nerve damage and trauma to the tissues.

The second type of liposuction technique is the Wet Technique. Here the operation is done by injecting of tumescent fluid(such as saline, epinephrine, lidocaine) into the fattened tissues. But this method, unlike Tumescent Technique, involves injection of less tumescent solution than the amount of the fat itself.

The third liposuction technique is similar to the Wet Technique, and that's why it is called Super-Wet Technique. The difference is in the amount of fat removed after the fluid is injected. The tumescent fluid is equal as quantity to the fat that is removed after injection. Because of this, it is not as risky as the last type of liposuction technique, called Tumescent Technique.

This technique includes the highest level of risk from intoxicating by tumescing fluid. Tumescent technique involves the injection of the three fluids- saline (to assist in the suction process), lidocaine (as anaesthetic) and epinephrine(to prevent bleeding). This liposuction technique prevents to a great extent blood loss and different deformations during and after the operation. But the major feedback comes from the amounts of tumescing fluids injected in the body: they are twice or even three times greater than the fat to be removed. This may cause serious intoxication. The biggest danger comes from lidocaine. Lidocaine overdose can be fatal in some cases. So what can you do if you want to undergo the operation? The best thing is to consult with a surgeon and to choose together the most suitable liposuction technique for your body. Be aware that some surgeons use the dangerous Tumescent Technique without consulting with the patient. Before you choose the liposuction technique itself, you had better carefully scrutinize your own surgeon, and decide whether he or she is honest with you.

Article by Robbie Darmona - an article author who writes on a wide variety of subjects. For more information click Liposuction Techniques