Liposuction by H20

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Score another you-read-it-here first for the California Surgical Institute (CSI) blog.

Back in January of 2009, your humble CSI blog told readers about a new type of liposuction based on water.

Because we remain current with world as well as national plastic surgery news, we were in the know about the development of WAL, (water-assisted liposuction) which bills itself as faster and causing less bleeding, bruising and nerve damage in patients.

(Read our original liposuction by H2O blog post.)

Hey, to be fair, tumescent liposuction, the standard surgical fat removable technique now widely used in the United States, also causes very little bleeding, bruising and damage to nerves.

We mentioned then that a German firm wanted to come to the U.S. sometime in late 2009.

Well, here they are! Water-assisted liposuction is now known in the U.S. as the Body Jet Liposuction system and made one of its first debuts in Guilford, Connecticut.

Passed by the U.S.F.D.A., we learn that the technique has been in use in Asia and Europe since 2004. The gizmo works by using high pressure streams of water to blast apart the matrix that holds fat cells together. The water-fat cell mixture is aspirated (sucked out) at the same time.

So far, patients who have been under the, well,  jet, report the most commonly areas slimmed by WAL include:

• Abdomen
• Hips
• Thighs
• Knees
• Arms
• Under the chin

Here’s something we did not foresee: According to the magazine Modern Medicine, the water-based device is also very good at preserving and collecting fat cells that can be reinjected into patients who want to take fat from areas where they have too much and replanting in hollow or sagging areas which don’t have enough volume.

(Read more about the liposuction device in Modern Medicine.)

Known as fat grafting, some of those areas include:

• Hollow places under eyes
• Hollow places near cheeks
• Thick facial folds running from the nose to the corners of the mouth
•  Thick facial folds running from the corners of the mouth down the chin
• Aged hands that need smoothing
• Buttocks augmentation
• Breast augmentation

So keep watching the CSI blog – the plastic surgery news you read today may be the treatment you receive from a plastic surgeon this time next year!

admin @ February 10, 2010