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High Definition (HD) Arm Liposuction

Summary of surgery

TIME

2 - 3h

ANESTHESIA

General

HOSPITALIZATION

1 Night

RECOVERY

15 Days

English subtitled video

The arm liposuction treatment at Clínica Sanza, in Barcelona, consists of extracting fat from under the skin located in the arms, shoulders, periaxillary region, forearms and wrists, aspirating it with a cannula through various methods.

The combination of conventional liposuction, lipolaser, lipovibrosuction and lipolaser with ultrasound allows us to achieve the results we are going to show you below in high definition. It is the most perfect technique that currently exists to achieve the best body reshaping.

WHERE DO WE OPERATE?

At Clínica Sanza we rely on the Sagrat Cor Hospital, part of the Quirónsalud group, to perform our surgical procedures.
Its prestige, facilities, medical and healthcare staff, as well as its technology are a guarantee.

BARCELONA: A HEALTH HUB

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Book a visit

You can do it in 3 ways:

Free on-site visit: Call +34 932066540 from Monday to Thursday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and Friday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Free on-site visit with IMMEDIATE booking: For booking outside office hours. We charge 60 € on your card to avoid false bookings. It is refunded on the day you come to the consultation.

ONLINE Visit: Video conference using whatsapp or Zoom. Cost of 60 € non-refundable. When booking indicate in the comments that you want videoconferencing and not on-site.

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Book a visit

You can do it in 3 ways:

Free on-site visit: Call +34 932066540 from Monday to Thursday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and Friday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Free on-site visit with IMMEDIATE booking: For booking outside office hours. We charge 60 € on your card to avoid false bookings. It is refunded on the day you come to the consultation.

ONLINE Visit: Video conference using whatsapp or Zoom. Cost of 60 € non-refundable. When booking indicate in the comments that you want videoconferencing and not on-site.

PATIENT PROFILE

Men and women who wish to slim the adiposity of the arms and even armpits. Patients who genetically accumulate fatty tissue in these areas and wish to define the arms and armpits(very uncomfortable with the bra in the case of women).

Men who, in spite of taking care of themselves with diet and sport, do not manage to define their arms, armpits or pectoral definition.

Women with very broad-based breasts that are bothered by the rubbing of the bra, arms and clothing.

PROCEDURE

We use different devices through minimal incisions to remove the fatty tissue that does not allow us to see a harmonious arm and axillary contour.

It is a simple and ambulatory procedure if performed in expert hands.

DURATION OF THE INTERVENTION

  • 2 to 3 hours

PROTOCOL

Preoperative

  • Evaluation of the area to be treated to determine the adequacy of the treatment.
  • Follow the specific guidelines determined by the doctor
  • CBC and tests of cardiac and respiratory status, if needed.

Anesthesia

  • Local and sedation. General if the patient wishes.

Hospitalization

  • Ambulatory or 24 h admission

Postoperative

  • Must take prescribed medication if required.
  • You must wear a compression garment provided by Clínica Sanza.
  • Mandatory check-ups in the doctor’s office for a few days or weeks to avoid complications.

Convalescence

  • 1 or 2 days
  • Use of compression garments 10-20 days
  • We recommend lymphatic drainage to accelerate recovery.

RESULTS

  • Imperceptible scars
  • Highly effective and long-lasting results
  • Rejuvenated and improved appearance
  • Increased self-esteem and complexes

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY

  • Simple-medium intervention. Requires good experience in expert hands

LEVEL OF RISK

  • Low-medium
  • Risks inherent to any surgical intervention: bleeding, hematomas, inflammation, pain. Infrequent
  • Risk of some asymmetry that may require retouching to improve it. Infrequent

BEFORE/AFTER PHOTOS

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Frequently asked questions about arm surgery

Improve the appearance of the arms is a surgery that is increasingly requested by patients, depending on the case we can do several procedures. The use of prosthesis; biceps or triceps, liposuction or lipolaser, brachioplasty or arm lift. That is, we can increase the volume or decrease it or remove flaccidity.
Shoulder, Brachial Biceps, Brachial Triceps and Pectoralis, the prostheses correct these deficits giving an appearance of greater muscle volume.
Arm implants are made of a silicone compound just like breast implants, but more cohesive. Its consistency is very similar to that of exercised muscle.
It is recommended to perform liposuction on those arms with excess fatty tissue to improve their appearance. As long as there is excess skin that can be satisfactorily retracted. When cellulite is present it is advisable to perform lipolaser.
When there is an excess of skin, caused by a significant flaccidity that cannot be retracted by another procedure such as lipolaser. Patients who have lost a lot of weight or advanced age or fragile skin due to sun exposure and/or smoking.
After surgery the patient may feel some discomfort with mild pain. These discomforts are controlled by the use of analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs. The bandage will be left on for the first 24 hours, but swelling may persist for some time, as well as some bruising.
Arm implant surgery, brachioplasty or arm liposuction is performed under local anesthesia and sedation. This means that the patient will remain asleep during the procedure, absolutely calm, and will not perceive any painful stimuli. We will leave a bandage for 24 hours and drains if the case requires it. The arm lift is also local or sedation.
The intervention lasts 2 hours. It is on an outpatient basis unless otherwise requested by the patient. Depending on the number of prostheses to be placed and the size of the liposuction or brachioplasty, we will advise outpatient or 24h admission.
In liposuction and lipolaser of the arms we leave 3 to 4 mm invisible spots. All pectoral, shoulder, biceps and triceps prostheses are done through the axillary route. A 5-6cm scar in the axilla concealed in the axillary crease. The arm lift does leave a long scar up to the elbow on the inside of the arm and sometimes also an axillary scar.

Liposuction and lipolaser frequently asked questions

The body fat is a cellular tissue that: protects the organs, covers articulations, controls the temperature, stores vitamins and is a source of energy for the body.

This fat is in a semi liquid state composed basically of triglycerides. We generate it from an excess of calories that we eat and do not use.

The body is prepared to store what we have in excess in cells called adipocytes. I present them to you: you can see them in the picture below. Notice everything that is in a yellow tone, all of that is the fat that accumulates and the bad news is, there a millions of them in your body (in mine as well.

On top of that they reproduce…unless you eliminate them…and that is the question.

 

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Fat in our body accumulates in 3 areas:

Subcutaneous fat: If I say love handles, I am sure you understand. It is the fat the accumulates right under the skin and before the muscles, what does not interest us in this case and that it is so noticeable. This type of fat can normally be easily lost with exercise. Attention! it is not the same for everyone. It depends on our genetics and our hormones; the fat can accumulate more in some areas than in other ones. For men it usually accumulates in the stomach and torso, but for women in hips and thighs.

Dónde está la grasa corporal

Visceral fat: it is more interiorized in our organism. It is around the organs, which is dangerous if it accumulates in excess. Normally, an excess of visceral fat is preceded of an excess of subcutaneous fat, there is the importance of not growing an excessive protruding stomach or excessive thick legs and thighs. If you do not have love handles, or cellulitis it is unlikely that you have it around the organs.

grasa visceral

Intramuscular fat: It is inside the muscles and there is usually not much. As the fat you can see in a “jamón de bellota”. It is totally different than the other types of fat. Obese people have fat in the muscles that can develop to diabetes because they are resistant to insulin. But that is another topic.

Grasa intramuscular

To summarize, right now we are talking about how to eliminate the subcutaneous fat, the love handles, fat rolls and cellulitis, which are the ones we are most interested in.

And this is where the magic words starts:
HIGH DEFINITION LIPOSUCTION

We can use the liposuction to eliminate the excessive fat of different areas of the body. These are the different areas that can be treated:  

  • Face and neck liposuction
  • Chest liposuction (gynecomasty)
  • Arm and underam liposuction
  • Back and abdomen liposuction
  • Feminine and masculine pubic liposuction
  • Buttocks liposuction
  • Leg liposuction

For any liposuction, a small cut from 3 – 5 millimetres is needed, nothing more. The size will depend on the tube (called a cannula) used for removing the fat. This means if it is for the chest, you will have a cut on each breast. If it is in the arms, there will be one in each arm, if it is in the buttocks one on each buttock, if the area is a bit bigger like the abdomen there will be two cuts, one on each side.

Foto de cicatriz de una liposucción

This mark is so small that it ends up being invisible at the end. It is like when a freckle, or wart is removed.

In the example we can see on the right of the picture a small dot from the scar that with time it will practically disappear. It is really small: 3-5 millimetres.

It really does!! And if you do it well, it is definitive.

Let me tell you: If you diet, eat less or practice sport, what you really do is eliminate the accumulated fat in the cells called adipocytes. What you get is, deflate them, they empty out. Just like with balloons. But they are still there waiting for you to overpass yourself and accumulate the extra energy. What we do with a liposuction is to eliminate the fat cells, we remove them from where they were. This means that you will not gain weight again unless you eat excessively, but in a really exaggerated way. If you eat too much but not exaggerated you will gain weight but in other areas of your body, not that one. 

Yes, in fact it is the most usual. Our patients usually do liposuctions of different zones taking advantage of the operating room, anaesthesia, etc.  You can save a lot of money. If you are thinking about it take advantage, you will pay one OR, one anaesthesiologist…

But if we are talking about a big liposuction, we are limited to the number of hours to do it and the quantity of anaesthesia needed. We do not do liposuctions of more than 4 – 5 hours. If that is the case then you would have to do them in different days, but it is less common.

Liposuction is the conventional technique where a small cannula is used to remove fat deposits from certain areas of the body. The lipolaser requires a special fiber optic device that transmits laser energy, this energy produces a destruction of fat. The fat is converted into a liquid emulsion that is left for the body to reabsorb (if the amount is not too large) or can be removed by aspiration through a cannula. Apart from the removal of fat, the laser causes the coagulation of the small vessels of adipose tissue and stimulates the reorganization of collagen in the superficial dermis causing an immediate skin tightening or firming effect.

Liposuction, like any cosmetic surgery, can be performed at any time of the year. The only consideration to take into account is the need to wear a compression garment in the operated area for a month after the operation, which prevents you from going to the swimming pool or the beach.
Not if it is done well. Once puberty is over, fat cells take a long time to reproduce, but maintain the ability to “grow”, which is why once we eliminate the number of fat cells (adipocytes) these accumulations cannot develop, as long as we follow a healthy diet and without excesses.
The time of the bath will be marked at the time when you can remove the girdle and replace it without causing discomfort and that the inflammation begins to subside, this can be 2 or 3 days after the intervention.

The results of a liposuction are amazing, people are delighted because the result is INMEDIATE. Your clothes will be big, a pleasure for you. The truth is that the first week after surgery you will not feel very good. From there on it depends on your pain threshold. We recommend for you to be in a calm place, be at home and not go to work. It will be a bad week, but then it will be better. It is as always, once you see the result you forget how bad you felt the first week.

After the first week, recovery gets better. You will still not feel well, but it will be different. From our experience we can say that normally you can go back to work after 10 days. But it really depends on each person and the type of job. It is not the same to work in an office where you can sit and work slower than a more physical job like in construction or be in a store or if you have to carry weight.

Yes and a lot. Cellulite or orange peel skin is a skin problem that manifests as very frequent small depressions in the buttocks, legs and hips. Liposuction cures and improves cellulite by decreasing the volume of certain areas. It partially eliminates fibrous partitions and favors a better lymphatic drainage.

At Clinica Sanza Barcelona we are specialists in liposuctions. It is our forte as to say after more than 30 years doing them. This allows us to do big liposuctions as other clinics are not prepared for.

Dr Sanza has taught many plastic surgeons from over the World, his techniques to do these big liposuctions and thanks to him his methodology is done in clinics all over the World.

We can remove from 100 grams to 1 liter of fat from patients that have not much fat and with bigger ones up to 20 liters of fat in one go. Imagine how amazing the result can be. In one go you can see your pant size reduced 6-8 sizes, interesting!!

Do you know what happens? Fat weights much less than the muscle and when you eliminate so many liters the volume reduces is amazing.

Yes, of course, you just have to remember that liposuction is not a method to lose weight but to lose volume. Clinica Sanza has a very extensive protocol for large volume liposuctions (from 10 to 15 liters), a technique that we have published in different specialized magazines and that we have presented in multiple national and international medical congresses.
Bruises and swelling may appear in the area for a few days, even weeks. Usually the bruises disappear after 7 to 14 days and the most evident inflammation after one to two weeks. Subsequently there is a little residual swelling that can be maintained for a month or two after the intervention.
Basically you have to follow the specific instructions for each case that your surgeon gives you. On the other hand, it is necessary to wear compression garments for a period of 3 to 5 weeks (this will vary according to the evolution of each patient). We suggest lymphatic drainage to eliminate edema, swelling and speed up the disappearance of bruises.
 
Once the acute inflammation has passed, the initial results can already be seen, that is to say after 3 weeks to 2 months depending on the extension of the intervention, although the definitive results can take 6 to 9 months.
It is due to a bad technique of the surgeon. If it is done correctly, it is impossible for the fat to form again, even if you get pregnant and after giving birth you keep the weight after the liposuction, the result continues to be as we had left it.

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