Liposuction is a very interesting surgical technique. Before I explain how it works it’s worth knowing what happens with fat cells when we put on weight. Each of us has only so many fat cells in our body, and when you put on weight those fat cells get bigger, you don’t generate more fat cells. So, liposuction works by permanently removing those fat cells. Where liposuction works its best is where there are unwanted bulges, so for example if you have a normal contour up the side of your leg and then you have a big bulge on the lateral side, with liposuction you can take a load of fat cells out from that big bulge, so that you make the contour sit down and match up with the rest of the skin around you. Essentially what you’ve done is you permanently rebalance the amount of fat in one area compared with the other. Now if you put on weight it all grows together and if you lose weight it all goes down together. So that’s essentially how liposuction works, it works by removing fat cells.
