Ultrasonic-Assisted Liposuction: Introduction and Historic Perspectives

It’s 2018 and suction-assisted lipoplasty (SAL) has been around in America for almost 35 years. Without chronicling each advance in this technology, one can say that this has become a mature, yet integral surgical technology for thinning of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT). Lipoplasty has evolved into a sophisticated technique for 3D body contouring, harvesting of fat for grafting, and as a complimentary procedure with excisional body contouring (lipoabdominoplasty).