Lunchtime Liposuction!

(CBS)  "This better then getting a cavity filled, or a root canal."

"This" is a procedure dubbed "Smart Lipo," so quick and painless it can be done during a lunch hour!

The description came from Maria Uribe, while she was having smart lipo done!

"Smart lipo differs from traditional liposuction in a variety of ways," says Dr. Michael Bruck, director of plastic surgery at the Juva Skin and Laser Center. "First of all, it's performed under local anesthesia. It's a virtually painless procedure. There is very little bruising, a much quicker recovery (than traditional liposuction), and little swelling." It also has a shorter recovery time, and patients can remain awake while it's done.

"We don't advise the patients go back to work," says Bruck, "but when I have called patients to find out how they're doing, I have found that they are out to dinner!"

He says the most common areas on which patients seek treatment for are the abdomen, love handles and outer thighs.

"It feels awesome to be able to interact with the doctor while he is doing this," Uribe told Early Show cameras during her smart lipo.

She and Bruck visited the show Monday:



For information on smart lipo, click here.

To find doctors trained to do smart lipo, click here.

[08edmond]

lunctime it is but is also under the gun from other obesity loss doctors, one form irvine, CA. who doesnlt think it is smart at all. skeptic and proponents just what we need to get a solid review of smart lipo eh..decide for yourself. Dermanetwork, liposuction dot com and numerous other can tell you. But i think personal review are best.

[kpowers777]

SIMPLE ENOUGH, the charge is 3 thousdand dollars and it was over in 30 minutes, seems very high for such a simpley proceedure. Something I might go for if it were not for the costing so much... Let me know if there are financial alternatives?
thanks
Kevin

[mitywhity]

"Out to dinner"...packing it in and packing it right back on. Smart.

[narkose]

While all cosmetic surgery can be performed under local anesthesia alone, most patients prefer the experience they get from general anesthesia (GA) %u2013 not to hear, feel or remember.

Propofol ketamine (PK) intravenous sedation technique bridges the safety gap between purely local anesthesia and GA.

PK provides the %u2018safest achievable%u2019 anesthesia %u2013 no deaths or major complications, like that described here, since its inception in March 1992.

Developed in 1992 and enhanced with a BIS brain monitor in 1997, PK uses the patient''s individual brain response to guide drug dosing, so not too much and not too little but always just the right amount is given. That is why PK is sometimes called ''Goldilocks'' anesthesia.

Chapter 1 of ''Anesthesia in Cosmetic Surgery'' is available for free on the Dr. Friedberg web site Tables 1-6 through 1-9 provide explicit instructions on how to do PK anesthesia and mistakes to avoid.