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The author presents a clinical classification of fat-suction cases in which treatment of excessive adiposity of the face and neck is discussed. Selection of the patient is a very important preoperative procedure. Fat suction is performed only on the adipose tissue lying between the skin and the platysma muscle and is not indicated for fat lying below the muscle structures. The author presents several improvements on the Illouz technique in comparison with more conventional lipectomy surgical procedures.
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Avelar, J. Fat-suction of the submental and submandibular regions. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 9, 257–263 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01571044
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