Systematic procedure for ultrasonically assisted lipoplasty

It is well known that liposuction is the extraction of fat tissue from localized areas through small incisions with the use of a cannula and a vacuum pump. Since we began liposuction 18 years ago in our Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Clinica RUBER of Madrid, more than 1,300 patients have been treated with this procedure. During this time, instruments and techniques have been dramatically improved: there have been changes in methods (from the dry method to the wet and super-wet ones), in instruments (from the large caliber cannulae to the small caliber ones), and in application (from the deep aspiration plane to the superficial one) [1-5]. We presently have completely developed a systematic procedure for conventional liposuction (CL) which produces excellent results and provides a foreseen evolution in all patients, and that we have combined with the new ultrasonically assisted lipoplasty (UAL) to get very satisfactory results.