The roots of liposuction can be traced back as far as the 1920s when French surgeon, Charles Dujarier, first introduced the concept of body contouring and fat removal. Conventional (traditional) liposuction remained a high risk major surgery for many years until 1987 when “Tumescent Formula” for liposuction was developed by Professor Jeffrey Klein in California, USA.
Tumescent liposuction is a fat removal procedure that doesn’t require general anesthesia and is performed as a day case surgery in a CQC registered surgical centre as an outpatient treatment. Because there’s no risk from general anesthesia, tumescent liposuction has a much higer safety profile than traditional liposuction and is now the gold standard worldwide.
Liposuction is now one of the top aesthetic surgical procedures worldwide. Only in 2018, about 1,732,620 liposuction surgeries were performed in the world (Ref: ISAPS International survey 2018).
Recent Comments