Is Arm Liposuction Right for Me?
If you have good skin tone but some excess fat, then arm liposuction may be a good option to reshape and thin your arms into youthful and pleasing aesthetics.
Your Arm Liposuction Experience
Arm liposuction is performed using the Body-Jet liposuction machine. Body-Jet liposuction provides a gentle and accurate way of removing fat with liposuction. The Body-Jet liposuction machine uses a spray of water at the tip of the cannula to dislodge the fat in a gentle fashion. This gentle technique leads to less bleeding and bruising compared to conventional liposuction. With this technique, our Portland patients generally have less down time and a more rapid recovery compared to those that undergo standard arm liposuction.
Very small openings are made in the skin at the elbow regions and near the underarm areas to provide excess for liposuction. First, an infiltrating solution with numbing medicine and adrenalin is injected. It is injected into the fatty layer. Next, Body-Jet liposuction is performed with a small cannula. A continuous spray of water at the tip of cannula dislodges the fat. This allows us to pass the cannula in a slow and gentle fashion. Portland patients often comment that liposuction procedures they watch on YouTube often look very aggressive with rapid jabbing movements of the cannula. With the Body-Jet a gentle approach is taken and the cannula can often be passed slowly like the bow of a violin player.
After the arms are sculpted, the small incisions are closed with tiny sutures. Gauze pads and compressive sleeve garment are placed. Your initial recovery will require about three to five days. After that, you can return to most basic home and work activities. However, you must defer from vigorous activity and exercise for about two to three weeks.
Arm Liposuction and ThermiTight
ThermiTight is a minimally invasive skin tightening technology. ThermiTight is a micro-invasive aesthetic procedure that uses controlled thermal energy underneath the skin to reverse the visible signs of aging. By applying radiofrequency energy directly to the targeted tissues, ThermiTight can immediately restore skin tightness and tone in the arms. In Portland patients with mild skin excess ThermiTight can be combined with arm liposuction to sculpt the arms. This innovative approach can transform patients that would otherwise need a brachioplasty into patients that can have their arms sculpted with minimal resultant scars.
If you would like to achieve slender arms, learn more about arm liposuction and how it can help you. Contact our office in Portland at (503) 783-0544 for more information.
