The majority of our patients see their final results within three months of having their liposuction surgery. For a few weeks following the surgery there is postoperative swelling associated with this method of surgery and once the swelling goes down, patients can start to see their results showing through.

Near enough any part of the body with excess fat can be treated with liposuction, although there are some areas that are much more common than others. In women, we find that the most commonly treated areas are the breasts, hips, stomach, thighs, arms, buttocks, neck and cheeks. With men on the other hand, we find that the most commonly treated areas are the stomach, breasts, love-handles (flanks), neck and cheeks.

After undergoing a liposuction surgery, your body shape will undergo a permanent change as the fat cells will have been removed. These are often performed in conjunction with an abdominoplasty surgery to give a total change to the shape of the body and give the best results. Moving forwards, its important to ensure that you eat a healthy and balanced diet as anything that can cause the fat to build back up will cause the body shape to become larger again.

Following liposuction surgery, you are required to be undergo some post-anaesthesia observation but you will be able to be discharged shortly after this. Because of the anaesthetic, we recommend that you do not drive and have somebody else take you home following your surgery, but after this period you are simply advised to rest and recover for the next two days before starting to return to your everyday life.

The scars associated with liposuction are generally very small and are usually just a few millimetres in length. These normally fade within a few months and the only noticeable difference will be that the area that has been treated is now much smaller.