What Is Body Contouring?
Before Surgery
After Surgery
Body sculpting, also called body sculpting, is an improvised surgical procedure that targets a particular area of the body and reshapes it. The procedures involved in this include getting rid of the extra skin, reshaping certain areas of the body, and eliminating excess fat.
There is a misconception that body contouring helps in losing weight, rather it helps with bringing up the muscle definition by addressing certain sections of the body where the excess fat deposit is present.
What Are The Different Types Of Body Contouring?
Non-surgical Approach –
The non-surgical method of body contouring is known as lipolysis. It is further divided into 4 methods –
• Cryolipolysis – Here freezing temperature is used to break down the fat molecules.
• Injection Lipolysis – It involves the injection of deoxycholic acid to target the fat cells in the body.
• Laser lipolysis – As the name suggests, lasers are used to destroy fat cells.
• Radiofrequency lipolysis – In this case, ultrasound waves are used to target the fat cells.
Surgical Approach –
The most widely accepted surgical options for body contouring include the following –
• Lifts & Tucks –
This surgical procedure is effective to remove the extra skin and fat molecules present in the body. It has a long proven effectiveness and well accepted by the patients for its superior results.
• Liposuction –
This procedure works on the concept of a vacuum cleaner, it suctions out fat deposits. This procedure is one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries for both males and females. It gives immediate results of decreased fat volume in the layer below the skin.
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After Surgery
Why Is Body Sculpting Used?
People prefer body sculpting to attain a certain shape and feel thinner. This is considered as an option by those who had limited success in dieting and exercising.
With the surgical approach, excess skin can be removed, this makes the skin tighter, smoother, and younger. This turns out to be a heavenly procedure for those who are left with excess skin after significant weight loss. It can also improve the saggy, wrinkled, and loose skin that comes with natural aging.
The back, arms, thighs, buttocks, love handles, and abdomen are a few of the targeted spots for body contouring.
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After Surgery
What Happens During Liposuction & Other Surgical Body Contouring?
Most cosmetic surgery takes place in the surgeon’s clinic or hospital. It lasts for 45 minutes to several hours, it depends on the type of surgery that the patient is going to be a part of.
For surgical procedures, your healthcare provider may –
• Put pre-operatively marks on the site of action.
• Ask you to be settled on a surgical table so that safety checks can be carried out with anesthesia and nursing.
• Clean up and prepare the skin present around the surgical area.
• Make incisions based on the procedure to be performed.
• Cut, re-position or shape excess fat and tissues to create the look you want.
• Vacuum out excess fat through liposuction by combining other essential procedures.
What Happens During Non-surgical Lipolysis?
One session of lipolysis hardly takes 40-45 minutes. During the process, the team may ask you to –
• Put on your hospital gown.
• Position on a table/chair.
• Mark the skin with a marker/pen.
• Carry out injection lipolysis.
• Use a wand so as to deliver cold or heat laser beams and ultrasound waves.
Remember, that body contouring is not a one-session success procedure, you need several treatment sessions to get the desired results. It is only indicated for a very limited area of fat deposit and few patients are actually good candidates for this treatment.
What Happens After Body Contouring?
It has been seen that most of the patients leave home the same day after the surgical procedure has been carried out. A helping hand will be appreciated to drive the patient back home and stay there for the first few nights. A thin tube will be attached near the incisions so as to drain out the fluid and prevent swelling. You will also receive recovery instructions from the surgical team. These may include –
• The time to change the bandages and carry out the drains.
• Engaging you a bit to avoid blood clots.
• Visible symptoms of complications will be explained pre-operatively.
• Suggest you stay under the shade.
• Use of medications to prevent infection and control pain.
When it comes to the non-surgical form of body contouring, you can leave immediately for home. In this case, you can self-drive and after a few days, your world will be back to normal.
What Are The Risks OR Complications Of Surgery?
Even though the risk factors are relatively uncommon, the surgeries do possess a few of the risk factors. Those are –
• Some pain or swelling with bruising is expected.
• Blockage/bleeding/blood clots
• Minimalistic and hidden scars because of incisions.
• Discolouration and rippling of the skin.
• Temporary numbness and restrictions of activities
• Occurrence of Hematoma (blood pouch formation under the skin).
• Nausea and vomiting can occur as complications from general anesthesia.
• Assymmetry and contour deformities can happen rarely.
Whereas, in the case of non-surgical options, the risks are limited. Redness, swelling, rashes, and soreness are a few examples.
Body contouring is the procedure that can help you eliminate the excessive fat molecules present in the body. This process can offer you a well-defined body when diet and exercise aren’t working enough. If you are looking for the best surgeon in Dubai, then Dr Abizer Kapadia will guide you through the entire procedure. He is among the very few doctors who have expertise in these kinds of procedures. For more information regarding body contouring, get in touch with Dr Kapadia at [email protected] or contact on +971- 0555718498 (WhatsApp).
