Port Charlotte Dr. Anthony Brignoni Explains Florida Liposuction Law Limits

If you're considering liposuction, Port Charlotte, Florida, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Brignoni, who has provided many tumescent liposuction procedures to patients since 1991, explains Florida liposuction law. The daily limit on the amount of liposuction that can be done in one day is 4,000 ccs of fat.

If the patient wants to have liposuction in multiple places in the body at the same time this can be accomplished within one tumescent liposuction procedure. However, the limit to the amount of fat that can be removed in one day remains at 4,000 ccs of fat per surgery day. This is equal to approximately two pounds of fat.

This does not mean that a patient cannot come back in one day or two days or three days later in one week to have more fat removed. But there must be days between tumescent liposuction procedures.

The reason for the law is for the protection of the patient. There have been unregulated beauty businesses -- both doctors and medical spas -- that were avoiding safety measures by performing liposuction in their offices using only sedative pills or creams instead of strong anesthesia. The reason that the other routes were taken were to offer patients low fees and to save money. The law protect patients who were looking for cheap liposuction and to prevent any venue from offering liposuction procedures without the proper use of anesthesia.

The Brignoni Cosmetogynecology Center is a state of the art medical facility in beautiful Port Charlotte, Florida. The Center is a state regulated, licensed and inspected facility where patients can have liposuction procedures to remove unwanted fat, to smooth and sculpt the body and create a more shapely physique.

The recovery time for liposuction is usually two weeks but you won’t see the results for several weeks. Patients might go back to work within three days. The major part of recovery from a liposuction procedure is that all the fluid that is put into the body for the procedure has to come out. Most of the fluid comes out during surgery through suction or it drains naturally. For the next 40 to 72 hours after surgery the patient is at home and is going to be draining fluid.

Once the fluid stops or is all drained or the patient is not draining anymore, they can go back to work and back to basic, normal activities. They will experience some tenderness because a surgery has been performed and the tenderness could remain for probably a week or ten days.

As time passes a patient is going to see a decrease in their size depending on the area that the liposuction was performed in. A change gradually occurs and from three days after the surgery patients will see a big difference.

But in six weeks they’ll see even a bigger difference in how they’re going to look. A patient is going to look different six months from the date of the first liposuction and they will continue changing if the patient has a good diet and a good plan to stay healthy. Exercise daily and routinely will provide even more positive benefits.

The importance of fitness, eating right, changing diet and including exercise as a regular part of their lifestyle. Patients are given the direction and a health map to maintain a good healthy lifestyle.

Silicone Breast Implants vs. Saline Breast Implants

Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Brignoni has provided breast augmentation procedures including breast implant surgery and breast lifts to women from South West Florida, including Charlotte County, Lee County, Fort Myers, Naples, Sarasota, Punta Gorda, and Port  Charlotte, Florida.

The decision to choose silicone breast implants vs. saline breast implants is at the top of the list of issues that women sometimes struggle with when they’ve decided to undergo breast augmentation surgery. The next issue is deciding on cup size.

Saline Breast Implants vs. Silicone Breast Implant Safety

One thing that many women don’t realize is that saline and silicone breast implants both have an outer silicone shell. Silicone breast implants are filled with silicone gel. Saline breast implants are filled with saline water.

Women worry about the safety of silicone implants due to lack of information that they’ve read. Some women believe that if there was ever a leak, a puncture or a break that would allow the silicone gel implant interior to leak into a woman’s body that it would be unsafe. This is not true.

Silicone breast implants are FDA-approved. Silicone gel in silicone breast implants, if leaked, isn’t thought to cause health issues, however, a silicone gel leak may cause breast pain or breast shape changes.

To prevent this issue and concern, the FDA recommends regular MRIs to accurately monitor for any irregularities in the silicone breast implants so that a woman may know if a leak has occurred. An MRI can detect a silicone breast implant leak. The FDA has not found a link between silicone breast implants and breast cancer.

Women who may not be familiar with or educated about silicone breast implants may not know that breast exams known as mammograms ARE able to detect irregularities through the silicone gel breast implants.

The upside of the implant and main reason for selecting the silicone breast implant over a saline breast implant is its natural feel. Silicone gel breast implants are very similar and feels so much like actual breast tissue and looks like a real breast that women prefer it.

But the concern over what happens to the silicone within the body should a leak occur can make her consider the use of saline implants if she is choosing to undergo breast augmentation surgery.

The final choice as to which kind of breast implant a woman makes is completely personal. Dr. Brignoni explains that in general the upside is that silicone implants feel very real and are close to the feel of real breast tissue. They’re soft, yet firm, smooth and flexible.

The saline implant is filled with saline water AFTER the implant has been inserted so it provides a smaller incision. However a new procedure using a funnel allows a small incision to be used with the implant of the silicone implant into the body.

Breast implant surgery is a very big choice and knowing that what you’re putting into your body is safe no matter what. Dr. Brignoni uses only FDA-approved saline and silicone breast implants.

Dr. Brignoni is a highly skilled and experienced cosmetic surgeon. Dr. Anthony Brignoni has also been a gynecologist and an obstetrician since 1991 in Port Charlotte, Florida. Women have traveled to Port Charlotte, Florida, from around the United States for surgery with Dr. Brignoni. 

Call for an appointment to consult with Dr. Anthony Brignoni at the Brignoni Cosmetogynecology Center located at 2300 Loveland Blvd., Ste. #1, Port Charlotte, Florida, 33980. You can ask anything you’d like, get answers, read information and view a range of breast implants both silicone and saline, try them on in a special bra and look at previous patients before and after breast implant surgeries.

You’re also invited to look at Dr. Brignoni’s photogallery online that shows before and after breast implant pictures. Contact Dr. Brignoni at 941-743-6866.