Board Certified Plastic Surgeon & Reconstructive Surgeon
This article is based on an expert interview with JoAnna Nguyen, MD, conducted by wikiHow Staff Editors. Dr. Joanna Nguyen is a Board-Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon based in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Nguyen holds dual degrees in Psychology and Biology with a Specialization in Neuroscience from Boston University and completed her medical training at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She then went on to complete comprehensive training in plastic surgery at the University of Southern California. Dr. Nguyen is a practicing plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, California and specializes in eyelid surgery, labiaplasty and breast augmentation. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
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If you have liposuction surgery scheduled or you’ve already had the procedure done, taking the right steps now can really help make your recovery easier. In this video, plastic surgeon JoAnna Nguyen shares her best liposuction recovery tips, including what you should be eating before and after your surgery and how you can ensure that everything heals the way it’s supposed to.
Expert Takeaways
- Make sure you’re in great health going into a liposuction procedure by eating healthy, exercising, avoiding smoking, and minimizing alcohol.
- Follow your doctor’s instructions for wearing your recovery garment to decrease swelling and ensure everything heals properly.
- Maintain a healthy diet after your procedure so your body gets the nutrients it needs to heal.
Video Transcript
First, you need to make sure you're in great health going into any medical procedure. So making sure you're eating healthy, you're exercising, minimizing alcohol intake—obviously no smoking and drug use—and are in a great place mentally going into the procedure. And throughout your recovery, make sure that you follow all of your doctor's recommendations. You usually most likely will have a garment afterwards and your doctor will inform you how long to keep that garment on. It's very important to wear this in order to decrease swelling and make sure that everything heals in the correct position. In addition, it's really important to maintain a healthy diet because this is not a weight loss surgery. This is a body contouring surgery, but it is a surgical procedure, and you need the proper nutrients in order to heal. Listen to your doctor in terms of how long you need to wait in terms of resuming activities, exercise, when that might be, and how strenuous that is.
