The procedure is best suited to healthy individuals who are at, or are close to their ideal weight, and who have good quality, elastic skin. Although liposuction can tighten skin to a degree, it will not correct gross skin excesses. In this regard, young patients fair better than older patients.
Usually, only tiny incisions are made, which mean that long-term scarring is not an issue. Special cannulas are used to remove fat from the body to achieve the desired improvement in shape. It is typical for areas that have been treated by liposuction to feel rather lumpy and irregular and in most patients these differences will settle with time and healing.
I offer both traditional liposuction and BodyJet liposuction at The Alexandra Hospital.