Laser Liposuction Removes Fat and Tightens Skin - Cellulite Reduction Treatment

Laser Liposuction Removes Fat and Tightens Skin
August 21, 2007
By Lara Tacita
Associated Content

James Bond villains may have frequently put Agent 007 underneath a laser or other interesting torture device. More people increasingly are turning to operations involving the device invented in the 1950s to correct things from nearsightedness to cataracts. While energy weapons have long been featured on science fiction television shows such as Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, they currently have more benign medical uses. Lasers have seen increasing use in the field of medicine so it is not a surprise they have been used in cosmetic procedures such as facial hair reduction or the latest trend - removing unsightly cellulite in areas of the body where it has accumulated and is not wanted.
. Liposuction has been around nearly as long if not longer, but a new procedure combines lasers with traditional liposuction. While the procedure traditionally vacuums up excess fat in the body, when lasers enter into the procedure fat cells are melted away first. Once a fat cell is formed it will stay in the body until the individual carrying the cell dies. Surgery is the only way to remove built up fat cells from the body even if they are not currently storing anything within them.

The advantages of using a laser in liposuction over the traditional technique are that the procedure is less invasive and in general requires less time to recover. While the traditional format uses a "vacuum" tool to break up the fat deposits in the body, the Because of the way the process works an additional benefit is that the skin of a patient who chooses to undergo this elective surgery. Basically, those who have skin who react poorly the more commonly formed procedure because their sin is "loose and inelastic" will benefit the most from going under the laser beam. People with this type of skin will likely have the skin sag after going through this operation.

While the laser liposuction technique may have benefits over the more traditional methods, doctors caution that it is still in the experimental stages. To put it more simply, doctors and scientists who came up with the idea do not yet have all the data they need to determine what the long term effects will be. The likelihood that the operators and medical professionals who people undergoing this type of surgery encounter will prefer their patients to die over talking will likely be rather low, or at least that would seem to be the case.