Liposuction

Running, jogging, skipping they say helps you lose weight. But there are certain bulges that no amount of dieting or exercise can get rid of. Eventually people opt for liposuction. This surgery helps remove that extra fat without too much trouble, since today liposuction is a commonplace surgery.

For the last five years, lipoplasty, as liposuction is now medically termed, has been the leading cosmetic surgery procedure in this country, with 385,000 procedures last year. People 35 to 50 have the most procedures. Women represented a vast majority, but men made up 20 percent of the total last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Most patients have an average of five pounds removed. Over the last several years, the operation has become safer, in part because smaller amounts of fat are removed. Most people can return to work within a week and begin light exercise in two weeks or so. Swelling usually goes down in about a week; bruising and some numbness generally last about three weeks.

The risk of death, which in 1998 was 1 in 5,000, dropped to 1 in 47,415 from 1998 to 2000, according to results of more than 94,000 procedures reviewed in the March/April 2001 issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal. Surgeons' reports suggest complications have dropped as well; in the survey, the most common minor side effect was postoperative nausea or vomiting, while the most frequent major complication was skin peeling around the treated area.

Surgeons no longer routinely combine lipoplasty with other major surgery, says Dr. Charles Hughes III, a plastic surgeon in Indianapolis and the author of the journal article.

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