After having facial liposuction, although you can feel that your face is slimmer, some people find that the skin has become saggy, does facial liposuction make the skin saggy? What can be done to help restore the elasticity?
Does facial liposuction make the skin loose?
Skin laxity may occur.
The skin is a biologically active organ and its ability to retract varies from one type of skin to another. After facial liposuction, the contraction of the fiber scar in the suction tunnel and the reduction of the subcutaneous fat volume will cause the skin to shrink. In older people with insufficient skin elasticity, the sudden loss of fat support after liposuction, combined with unsatisfactory retraction, can cause skin laxity.
What to do if the skin is sagging after facial liposuction
Choose superficial fat suction technique
Traditional liposuction techniques leave a thicker superficial layer of fat, which weakens the degree of skin retraction. The thick fat flap sags and forms folds due to edema and gravity, and the degree of retraction is poor, making it easy for skin laxity to occur.
With the superficial fat aspiration technique, the fat flap left behind is thin, edema is light, and gravity has little effect. After surgery, the skin can be fixed with elastic band, and the skin can be retracted quickly by the contraction of the fiber scar. In addition, intraoperative stimulation of the dermis is also responsible for skin retraction.
Skin excision surgery to improve skin laxity
If the skin laxity is more than 20 cm and the fat aspiration technique alone cannot make it retract completely, skin excision surgery should be used to help restore the skin elasticity.
Pay attention to sun protection
Ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause a large number of free radicals to form in the body, causing the skin to be overly oxidized and lose its elasticity, resulting in skin laxity. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to sun protection after facial liposuction in order to avoid aggravating skin laxity.
Enzyme supplementation
Enzyme is an important substance in the human body. Lack of enzyme will decrease cellular vitality, weaken protein decomposition ability and lack of qi and blood, which will lead to sagging skin. Proper supplementation of enzymes can improve the absorption of nutrients, enhance immunity, neutralize free radicals, maintain the body's acid-base balance, lift protein denaturation, slow down aging and improve skin laxity.
Massage helps restore elasticity
Massage can promote local blood circulation, enhance the vitality of facial cells, promote the proliferation of fibroblasts, and help the skin to retract. However, it is important to note that facial liposuction cannot be rubbed before the swelling is reduced, otherwise it will aggravate the swelling and affect the recovery.
