Liposuction
Vancouver, BC
Even with a healthy diet and regular physical activity, many individuals deal with localized pockets of fat cells that simply refuse to shift. These stubborn fat deposits are typically dictated by genetics and hormonal trends, making them impervious to standard fitness milestones. Dr. Prince uses precision liposuction techniques to sculpt away resistant areas and restore absolute harmony to your body shape.
Dr. Prince approaches this popular cosmetic surgery with an artistic eye for structural balance, removing subcutaneous fat layers to accentuate your natural lines and deliver a refreshed, confident appearance.
Outpatient procedure
5 to 7 days for light daily activities; 3 to 4 weeks for strenuous workouts
Initial flattening visible immediately, with final high-definition contours emerging over 3 to 6 months
Swiftly completed in 1 to 3 hours under general anesthesia, depending on the number of treated areas
The liposuction procedure is a premier body-contouring procedure designed to permanently remove unwanted fat cells from specific, targeted regions of the body. It is absolutely paramount that patients realize, from their initial visit, that liposuction is not a weight-loss procedure. It will not treat systemic obesity, nor is it a substitute for healthy lifestyle habits.
Instead, this surgical procedure is designed for individuals who maintain a stable body weight or are slightly above average but want to target disproportionate subcutaneous adipose tissue. By permanently suctioning out these isolated cells, the surgery redefines your baseline proportions, allowing your clothing to fit seamlessly and your true silhouette to emerge.
Modern aesthetic surgery offers several advanced liposuction techniques to optimize patient safety and contour smoothness. Depending on your specific goals, modalities, such as power- or ultrasound-assisted (VASER) liposuction, can be discussed during your consultation to help customize your high-definition profile.
During your surgical planning session, Dr. Prince will carefully review your tissue characteristics to select the ideal approach for your frame:
The gold standard foundation for modern fat removal. Before extracting any tissue, the surgeon injects a specialized tumescent fluid, a combination of saline solution, a local anesthetic for pain block, and epinephrine to constrict blood vessels, into the targeted subcutaneous fat layer.
This fluid injected matrix causes the fat compartment to swell and firm, minimizing blood loss and bruising while maximizing tissue extraction accuracy.
Dr. Prince highly prefers utilizing Power Assisted Liposuction PAL instruments for comprehensive contouring. This technique employs a specialized thin tube (cannula) that produces rapid, micro-vibrations.
These subtle movements glide through dense fibrous layers effortlessly, allowing the surgeon to remove fat smoothly and efficiently while protecting delicate surrounding tissue networks.
The classic, highly reliable form of traditional liposuction where the cannula is manually guided to clear out deeper fat pockets with beautiful predictability.
VASER (Vibration Amplification of Sound Energy at Resonance) uses focused ultrasound energy to selectively break down fat cells while preserving surrounding blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue. This precision allows Dr. Prince to sculpt smoother, more refined contours with less tissue trauma than traditional liposuction. The controlled ultrasound energy also stimulates collagen production, supporting mild skin retraction in the treated area.
Liposuction is exceptionally versatile and can be applied alone or seamlessly combined with other body contouring procedures to treat unwanted fat across multiple common areas:
Abdomen and Waist
Sculpts away persistent layers over the abdominal muscles to create a flat, trim midsection.
Flanks and Back
Eliminates "love handles" and stubborn bra-line fat rolls to narrow your trunk line.
Upper Arms
Reshapes heavy or sagging arms, carving out a beautifully toned tricep profile.
Thighs and Hips
Refines both the inner and outer thighs, restoring a sleek, friction-free lower body drape.
Under the Chin
Targets submental fat to recreate a crisp, elegant, and youthfully defined jawline.
It is vital to understand that liposuction removes fat, but it does NOT remove excess skin. The success of a standalone body contouring procedure relies heavily on your native skin elasticity; healthy, snapping skin will easily contract over the new, downsized pocket. If a patient exhibits poor skin elasticity or substantial loose skin from pregnancy or significant weight loss, performing liposuction alone will leave behind deflated, hanging tissue folds. In these scenarios, Dr. Prince will honestly advise combining your procedure with an excisional surgery, such as a tummy tuck, thigh lift, or a full mommy makeover, to safely re-anchor the remaining skin and achieve optimal results.
This fast-acting procedure can be applied to almost any area with stubborn subcutaneous fat, including the chin, upper arms, back, flanks, abdomen, hips, and thighs, to achieve a gorgeous, global body symmetry.
Undergoing precision fat removal permanently updates your physical dimensions, offering immediate mechanical and aesthetic lifestyle upgrades.
If you are close to your target weight, maintain a committed exercise routine, and possess firm skin with localized pockets of stubborn fat, you are an ideal candidate. Candidates must be free of systemic conditions that cause poor wound healing or indicate a weak immune system.
It is important to have realistic expectations. For example, patients should understand that liposuction cannot remove cellulite, nor can it correct internal stretched visceral fat or separated abdominal muscles. During your initial evaluation, Dr. Prince will walk you through your tissue characteristics transparently to ensure a safe, highly effective procedure.
Because liposuction is performed as a streamlined outpatient procedure inside our modern surgery center, you will be cleared to return home the very same day. When you wake up from general anesthesia, the treated areas will be snugly secured in medical compression garments.
Wearing these specialized garments continuously for the first few weeks is crucial to reducing swelling, helping the overlying skin contract smoothly, and locking in your new contours.
The initial recovery period is highly manageable. While most patients experience temporary bruising, localized soreness, and minor changes in skin sensation, severe pain is rare and can be easily kept at bay with personalized pain medicine.
Most individuals can comfortably return to remote desk work within 3 to 5 days and resume light daily activities, such as walking, immediately. However, you must absolutely protect your healing tissue by avoiding heavy lifting and strenuous exercise for at least 3 to 4 weeks.
While a significant volume of fat is removed on the day of surgery, your initial results will be temporarily obscured by surgical swelling and fluid retention. Over the first few weeks, as you stick to your compression routine, the fluid clears out, and the swelling subsides. Your high-definition lines will continually sharpen, with your final, beautifully sculpted body shape locking into place around the 3 to 6-month mark.
Your new contours are structurally permanent because the extracted fat cells can never grow back. However, the remaining fat cells in your body can still expand if you gain weight in the future. To safeguard your stunning, proportional investment for life, maintaining a stable weight through a healthy diet and regular exercise is highly recommended.
Achieving a perfectly smooth, ripple-free liposuction result without contour irregularities or uneven fat removal requires a board-certified surgeon with extensive expertise in reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Prince brings decades of great anatomical skill and advanced clinical judgment to her private practice in Surrey. Her background in complex trauma and micro-reconstruction allows her to navigate subcutaneous fat planes with master-level accuracy, protecting deep blood vessels and guarding your tissue smoothness.
As a female plastic surgeon, Dr. Prince brings an exceptionally intuitive, supportive perspective to conversations about body contouring, clothing goals, and confidence milestones.
She completely rejects automated formulas, dedicating ample time to assessing your skin elasticity and mapping out a personalized extraction plan that respects your physical safety and enhances your vitality.
Yes, absolutely. This advanced combination is known as fat grafting or fat transfer. Dr. Prince can collect your unwanted fat cells via gentle Power Assisted Liposuction, wash and purify the material into a pristine fluid matrix, and strategically reinject it into other areas of your body. This is commonly performed to achieve a small volume natural cosmetic breast augmentation, perform a structural breast reconstruction, or restore youthful volume to the face without medical devices or synthetic fillers.
If you experience a minor weight fluctuation after surgery, the new fat will be distributed evenly throughout your entire body rather than accumulating heavily in your old trouble zones, since those cells were permanently cleared out. However, significant weight gain can cause the remaining fat cells in the treated areas to swell, compromising your sleek, high-definition contours.
Because Dr. Prince utilizes advanced, ultra-thin cannulas, the required incisions are incredibly tiny, typically measuring just a few millimeters in length. She strategically hides these tiny entry points within natural body creases, along the bikini line, or inside the belly button. Once healed, these small marks fade to tiny, almost imperceptible dots that are exceptionally difficult to see.
While the procedure is performed under general anesthesia so you feel absolutely nothing during surgery, it is common to feel a sensation similar to an intense muscle workout or deep bruising during the first few days of recovery. This soreness is easily controlled using standard pain medicine and wears off rapidly over the first week as you rest.
When performed by an experienced, board-certified plastic surgeon in an accredited surgery center, liposuction is a safe and effective procedure. However, as with any major surgery, potential risks include temporary contour irregularities, fluid collections, localized changes in skin sensation, or rare systemic events such as fat embolism syndrome. Dr. Prince will carefully screen your health markers to mitigate all risk factors before your treatment day.
It is important to differentiate between subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Liposuction can only safely remove subcutaneous fat, which is the soft, pinchable fat layer located directly beneath the skin and above the abdominal muscles. It cannot touch visceral fat, which is the deep, firm fat packed around your internal organs inside the abdominal wall. Visceral fat can only be reduced through a healthy diet and weight loss adjustments.
