Revolutionizing Liposuction: Faster Recovery Times with Dr. Robert Whitfield

I think liposuction, technologically, there's not a lot of differences in what's been around. It's how you do it and where you do it. I think the trend now is to reduce the amount of downtime in every single procedure so patients can get back to their activities, their work life, their home life. Performing liposuction, say, in an isolated area, like your love handle area, you can do this under local in your office based or or procedure room. So within 24 hours, they're back to doing what they want to do. I still would treat them with compression to optimize the result. I would always do that for a six week period of time and then reevaluate how they're doing, see if they need more. I think that's an exciting new concept, doing it under local anesthesia.