With today’s hectic lifestyle and fast pace, it is no surprise that less invasive plastic surgery with minimal down time and recovery is growing by leaps and bounds.  While most people are accustomed to the idea of a five-minute face lift or liquid nose job that can be performed with dermal fillers, few people are aware of the rapidly advancing trends in less invasive tummy tuck and liposuction procedures.

Tummy tuck and liposuction procedures are rapidly evolving in the United States and particularly in Florida, where the warm weather demands year-round attention to physical appearance. 

Liposuction Tummy Tuck      Liposuction tummy tuck, also known as lipoabdominoplasty, is a new technique in tummy tuck surgery.  This procedure has a lower complication rate and faster recovery time than the traditional tummy tuck.  This technique combines liposuction and various tummy tuck practices in order to reduce the amount of surgical trauma and dissection necessary to acheive beautiful results.  Additionally, with liposuction tummy tuck, a dense layer of lower abdominal wall connective tissue, Scarpa's fascia, is left intact.  Preservation of these natural tissues during liposuction tummy tuck provides patients with a faster recovery time, fewer days with drains in place, lower incidence of blood and fluid collections, and less risk of tissue loss.   

Liposuction is a rapidly evolving procedure in the field of cosmetic surgery with more variations being performed today than ever before.  The art of liposuction can be practiced using many different techniques, types of cannulas, and various machines including Vaser, SmartLipo, and BodyJet.  Depending on the desired results, liposuction can be performed in a very superficial, moderate, or deep level of fat.  Lipoetching utilizes a comination of superficial and moderate liposuction to provide the appearance of well-defined muscles while body sculpture and liposculpture use a combination of superficial, moderate, and deep liposuction to improve the shape of the body.  These and other techniques are used on a daily basis by the Plastic Surgery Center of Tampa and will be discussed in greater detail in the paragraphs to follow. 

Three dimentional body sculpture, liposuction, and fat transfer are surgical tecniques that are commonly use in the field of cosmetic surgery.  A well-known procedure employing all of these techniques is a butt augmentation with fat, also known as a Brazilian butt lift.  This surgery demands that the surgeon be an expert in all of these tecniques. During this procedure, the waist, abdomen, back, and hips are slimmed and sculpted with liposuction, then the fat is transferred, or grafted, to the buttocks. 

NON-SURGICAL NOSE JOB (NON-SURGICAL RHINOPLASTY)

As a nose job, or rhinoplasty, and revision rhinoplasty surgeon, I’ve recently had a lot of patients asking about non-surgical nose jobs.  It seems that over the past year, but especially the last six months, non-surgical nose jobs seem to be gaining a lot of attention not only from curious patients and the media, but also from board-certified plastic surgeons as well.  In this post, I’m going to highlight some of the recent advances in non-surgical rhinoplasty and specifically discuss my use of these fillers in the nose.

Liquid Face Lift, Five Minute Face Lift, Fifteen Minute Face Lift.

Facial rejuvenation without surgery can be achieved with the use of dermal fillers, Botox, and fat transfer.  These adjunctive modalities are most beneficial for young patients and for those where surgery is not an option.  A liquid face lift may freshen a patient's face and improve the appearance to such a point that a surgical face lift can be postponed for many years. 

Natural breast augmentation is a new procedure that involves the transfer of fat cells with a high percentage of stem cells in order to enhance breast. This modality is divided into surgical and non surgical breast augmentation. Using the Brava technique no surgery is required to enhance the breast. Most commonly is to perform breast augmentation with fat transfer without the need of implants.

While liposuction is associated with a very high patient satisfaction rate, some patients have complications after liposuction. (learn more about liposuction, there are some patients that unfortunately are not completely satisfied with their results. These patients are usually distraught, wondering if they did something wrong to harm their final results, if they chose the wrong surgeon, or if there is anything they can do to enhance their results. Fortunately, there are ways to improve most complications following liposuction.