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Liposuction Techniques

Liposuction Techniques

There are various techniques for doing liposuction. Some techniques are now longer considered safe (Dry Technique), and some are recognized as world-wide standards of care (Tumescent Technique). The links above will take you to written discussions of the most popular and important of the liposuction techniques.

• Tumescent Technique - The tumescent technique is a method that provides local anesthesia to large volumes of subcutaneous fat and thus permits liposuction totally by local anesthesia.
• Dry Technique - The dry technique derived its name from the fact that it did not use injections of local anesthesia into the fat before liposuction.
• Wet Technique - The wet technique required the injection of approximately 100 milliliters of local anesthesia containing epinephrine.
• Super Wet Technique - The super wet technique requires the injection of a volume of dilute local anesthesia that is less than half the volume used for the tumescent technique.
• Ultrasonic (UAL) - Ultrasonic Assisted Liposuction (UAL) requires the use of a large volume of tumescent fluid and uses either a metal probe or metal paddle to deliver ultrasonic energy and heat into subcutaneous fat.
• Power Assisted Techniques (PAL) - PAL devices use power supplied by an electric motor or compressed air to produce either a rapid in-and-out movement or a spinning rotation of an attached liposuction cannula.
• Laser Assisted Lipolysis (LAL) - LAL requires the use of tumescent fluid and uses a microcannula inserted through a small incision to deliver laser energy and heat into subcutanteous fat.