Liposuction is a fat removal operation performed by subcutaneous absorption of excess fatty tissues. This method was first developed by Italian gynecologist Giorgio Fischer in 1974.
Liposuction, or simply lipo, is a type of fat-removal procedure used in plastic surgery. Evidence does not support an effect on weight beyond a couple of months and does not appear to affect obesity-related problems. In the United States, liposuction is the most common cosmetic surgery.
Fischer discovered that liposuction was possible by attaching a mechanism consisting of an interconnected probe and an electrically rotating surgical blade (scalpel) to a suction device. Liposuction was previously used to remove excess fat before surgery in the abdomen. The biggest problem in early liposuction trials was that the patient lost a large amount of blood.
Four years later, French plastic surgeon Yves-Gerard Illouz discovered that the liposuction method could also be used for cosmetic needs. Using a blunt-tip probe, Illouz both prevented problems that may occur during the surgery and significantly reduced the postoperative recovery period. This method was introduced in the United States in the early 1980s, but the process was not always successful, which was the most important factor preventing it from becoming popular.
Yves-Gérard Illouz (also known as Gérard Illiouz; September 12, 1929 – January 21, 2015) was a French surgeon who developed safer methods of liposuction. He was a co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). In the late 1970s, Illouz developed a safer and easier method of liposuction. His "Illouz Method", introduced in 1982 and first published in Annales de Chirurgie Plastique in 1984,was a "wet method" using blunt cannulas, rather than sharp, and of smaller size than previously, in order to minimise bleeding while injecting saline solution into the subcutaneous fat deposits, breaking up the fat for extraction by sucti on.
In 1985, a California dermatologist, Dr. Jeffrey Klein avoided this problem with the tumescent anesthesia method. In this method, a mixture of high amount of lidocaine and epinephrine, which is a vasoconstrictive drug, is used. This drug mixture significantly reduces the risk of bleeding and eliminates the need for general anesthesia.
Today, especially women's "perfect body" obsession has made the liposuction method, also known as fat removal, more popular than ever before. This method gives positive results, especially for people who are not overweight but have extra fat in certain parts of their bodies, by removing these fats and eliminating visual disproportions in their bodies. With the liposuction method, most of the fat in the abdomen, hips, legs and knees is removed.