Recovery News / liposuction

The road to a sculpted body often starts with liposuction or a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedure. But the journey doesn't end there! Post-op recovery is crucial for maximizing your results and achieving a comfortable healing process.

Sometimes patients will come in worried about numbness and burning in the skin after a liposuction procedure or a BBL with lipo.

Post-surgery, the importance of massage is very well-known, understood, and documented. Massage helps with swelling, lymphatic drainage, fibrosis, and much more.

Seromas are a familiar term in the world of post-operative recovery, and they're commonly associated with surgeries like tummy tucks, liposuction, and Brazilian Butt Lifts (BBLs).

The Ogee Roller, introduced to the market by a seasoned American board certified plastic surgeon and Duke University alumni, will change the recovery process for liposuction patients forever.

The external fat lives just under the skin, and while it sucks to have fat of any kind, this type is the most common, making up about 90% of a person’s overall body fat, and is often the hardest to lose.

Since its launch, the original Ogee Faja has become not just the staple compression garment for procedures like liposuction and BBLs, but it’s also renowned as fan-favorite shapewear and even the ideal postpartum support garment for new moms. 

After a tummy tuck or liposuction, most surgeons will advise their patients to wear a faja or compression garment of some sort, but wearing a faja after a BBL specifically, is absolutely vital to preserving your results.

Everyone has a triangular Key Area, but the shape is slightly different per individual. While I spend a lot of time sculpting this part of the body during a BBL, and it is triangle-like on every person, the subtle differences in shape that are unique to each patient.