Dr.Zelko’s Podcast:
This question comes up every so often. So, in order to explain this clearly, I use the analogy as to how the space looks like that we treat with liposuction. This is what I tell my patients when they are sitting in my office: if the skin were the ceiling of this room and the floor is your muscle, the space we are sitting in is the subcutaneous space, this is the space that we perform liposuction in. Between the skin (ceiling) and the muscle (floor) spans a spider web of structures which tethers the skin to the muscle, holding it in place. Running in that spider web structure are your blood vessels and nerves and running between the strands of the spider web support is your fat. Our goal is to remove the fat and leave that spider web with its blood vessels and nerves unharmed during the procedure. So with tickle lipo, as in most office based liposuction procedures, the instruments used stay in that subcutaneous space, safe from any body organ harm. An added benefit is once you remove the fat you create gaps in that fatty tissue; your body wants to wipe out those gaps and it does so by pulling down on your skin. The secondary effect of that is the skin tightens. So it is a safe procedure working only in the subcutaneous space and it leaves your organs unharmed. So if you have any questions please leave a comment.
