New Body Cosmetic Surgery Center, Pasadena, CA

Los Angeles Liposuction

If you're considering liposuction in the Fresno or Los Angeles areas, we invite you to contact us. With more than a decade's experience with thousands of cases and all the patient feedback, our technique has improved to the following.

  1. Nearly all of our Pasadena, Fresno and Los Angeles liposuction patients are able to walk from the operating room to the recovery room within 20 minutes after their procedure.
  2. Twenty-four hours later, greater than 75 percent of our patients need nothing but Tylenol® for pain relief.
  3. Local anesthetic is still a large part of our technique, but we use intravenous relaxation medications so our patients have no memory of their surgery. See article.
  4. When most patients think of general anesthetic, they think of nausea and vomiting after surgery. Less than one percent of our patients experience this. Our technique is safer than general anesthesia and our recoveries are easier. See article.

We have touchup rate of only three percent for our Visalia and Los Angeles liposuction procedures. Many surgeons have as high as a 50 percent touchup rate. How do we do it? We check our results during surgery by standing our patients up and finding any areas that need fine tuning (most have no memory of this). Just as people look different standing than lying, any areas requiring extra work are revealed when standing. The patient is then marked and put back down on the table for the conclusion of the procedure.

There's an urban myth that all great liposuction is “microliposuction” performed with a tiny cannula. While this is true for very small cases, it's not the best choice for over half of the patients. For the larger ones, microliposuction greatly increases the surgery time and also greatly increases the recovery time, because there is a direct relationship between the two. The experienced surgeon uses a carefully selected variety of cannulas based on the body style. Note also that ultrasonic liposuction uses big incisions and causes more damage underneath the skin than normal liposuction, rendering it worse than useless.

Many factors determine body styles: ethnic origin, level of activity, age, diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption. We encourage you to read the body type description and look at our before-and-after photos by ethnic origin to identify your body type. This can give you a more accurate idea of what to expect after your procedure.

Now that we have told you about our liposuction experience and techniques, we invite you to schedule your consultation with Dr. Yoho today. If you are considering liposuction in the communities around Visalia, Fresno, Simi Valley, Pasadena or Los Angeles, Los Angeles cosmetic surgeon Dr. Yoho would like to meet face to face with you and answer all your body contouring questions. And when you register online, your liposuction consultation is free.

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