Body correction: what you need to know about liposuction?
Once the main way to correct the figure was a suit, but in recent decades, aesthetic medicine and plastic surgery have played the leading role in transformation methods. We will talk about the evolution of liposuction - the main radical method of combating excess fat deposits - in a series of articles.
Before we move directly to the topic of our article, let's recall what adipose tissue is and what its main functions are. Subcutaneous adipose tissue (or hypodermis) is the third, lower layer of the skin (after the epidermis and dermis), which consists of bundles of connective tissue that intertwine and form a large-loop network.
There are two types of adipose tissue, white and brown. These types of adipose tissue differ in their microscopic and metabolic characteristics.
Brown adipose tissue is found in newborns and some hibernating animals, on the neck, near the shoulder blades, behind the sternum, along the spine, under the skin, and between muscles. It consists of fat cells densely woven with blood capillaries.
White adipose tissue in humans is located under the skin, especially in the lower abdominal wall, on the buttocks and thighs, where it forms a subcutaneous fat layer, as well as in the omentum, mesentery, and retroperitoneal space.
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