Advanced Awake Liposuction with Facial Fat Grafting
Workshop
Walter Tom, MD, FACS
Aesthetic Laser and Vein Centers
170 Farmers Lane, Ste 6B
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Credits: 19.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits
DAY ONE
7:00 7:30 am Registration, Welcome, and Breakfast
7:30 7:45 am History of the procedure "How it got
started and by whom!"
7:45 8:00 am The Overview: Office base liposuction and
Facial Fat Grafting using local tumescent anesthesia
8:00 8:10 am Anatomy review "Break it down"
8:10 8:20 am Identifying potential patients then
consent & exam
8:20 8:45 am Patient preparation and preoperative
medications
Local tumescent anesthesia preparation.
Identifying safe limits of lidocaine & side effects
8:45 9:00 am Patient markings fat deposits
(topography format) and Keys to pre/post operative
photography
9:15-9:30 am Morning Break (food & drink available)
9:30 -12:30 pm First case of live surgery with hands-on
opportunity: upper and lower abdomen
Room set-up, instrument selection & layout, and surgical
dressing
Infiltration methods of infusing local tumescent
anesthesia using infiltration
cannula or spinal needles
Aspiration methods utilizing SAL and/or PAL
12:30 1:30pm Working Lunch (Food and Drink available)
Recovery, post operative treatment, and potential
complications involving touch-up
1:45 5:00pm Second live surgery with hands-on
opportunity: upper & lower abdomen with flanks
(beginning liposuction)
5:00 6:00pm Overall review, question and answer
session
6:00 pm Adjourn
7:30 pm Dinner with Staff and Attendees
Day Two
7:00 7:30 AM Breakfast
7:30 9:00 AM Live Facial Fat Grafting (Re-injection
patients)
10:30 AM 1:00 PM Live surgery with hands-on
opportunity. One case both upper & lower abdomen
with flanks and Facial Fat Grafting
1:00 2:00 PM Working Lunch
Business model for implementing liposuction into your
practice.
Marketing this cosmetic procedure into your practice
both internally & externally.
Establishing a fee schedule for the procedure
Malpractice Considerations
Instrument selection and O/R set-up, costs of getting
started
Discussing physical space requirements: ideal set-up for
your liposuction suite
2:00 5:00 PM Live surgery with hands-on opportunity.
Laser Liposuction with facial fat grafting
5:00 5:30 PM Managing patients who are challenging &
unsatisfied with the result
Overall review, question and answer session
5:30 PM Adjourn
