Title: 
The SmartLipo Laser Advantage

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460

Summary:
This article is about  the many advantages that it  laser procedure Smartlipo, being a quick treatment and an outpatient procedure and is done under local anesthesia, which doesn't leave none of ugly scar and the results become evident within a week.


Keywords:
SmartLipo, laser liposuction,  outpatient procedure, no suturing, quick procedure, surgery


Article Body:
SmartLipo is a newer laser assisted liposuction procedure being performed in 

most parts of the world. It is a tried and tested laser therapy which was 

initially practiced in Italy in Europe. Now other countries like Japan, USA 

and South American countries have started performing this laser liposuction 

which has many added advantages. It was approved by the Food and Drugs 

Administration in November 2007.


SmartLipo involves using a laser body sculpting workstation. This is 

manufactured by Cynosure which is an American Company that produces 

laser and light-based source equipment for the health industry. The device 

was approved by FDA for laser assisted liposuction. 


The SmartLipo procedure involves introducing a laser probe through a tiny 

incision in the skin at the treatment site and passing laser pulses to 

liquefy the fat at that site. The Smartlipo LaserBodySculpting Workstation 

delivers a 1064-nm Nd: YAG laser fiber through a probe. The laser probe is 

very delicate and thin. It is about 1mm - 2mm in diameter. So the skin 

incision that is needed to introduce this probe is very small.


Laser liposuction or SmartLipo is an outpatient procedure and is done under 

local anesthesia. There is no need for any special preparation at the 

beginning of procedure. The doctor after examining the candidate to see 

whether he is fit, injects a fluid at the treatment site. This injection 

contains anesthetic drug to make the procedure painless, other drugs to 

make the site bloodless to prevent blood loss.


The laser probe after insertion in to the treatment is operated by doctor to 

deliver laser pulses. These laser pulses melt the fat at the treatment site 

which is removed by the blood. A few doctors also suck the excess liquefied 

fat not removed by the blood through a cannula introduced through the skin. 

In this procedure, there is no need to move the equipment to and fro to the 

extent done in the traditional liposuction procedure. This obviously 

decreases the tissue trauma and subsequent bleeding. Moreover the laser 

pulses coagulate the tissue around the treatment site and this again helps in 

controlling the bleeding.
	

The laser in addition to liquefying the fat also induces the tissue to lay 

down collagen. This collagen contracts and makes the skin over the

treatment site tight. This prevents the formation of any loose skin folds and 

makes the treatment site perfectly blend with the body contour.


The procedure of SmartLipo takes relatively less time. Each session of 

treatment lasts for approximately 45 minutes to one hour. Since the laser 

probe is very small, the incision made does not require any suturing. Since 

no suturing is done, no ugly scar results. Also the results become evident 

within a week and the results are permanent since the fat cells are destroyed 

and removed.


