
History of Liposuction
History of Liposuction Liposuction has been around since the 1920s when Dr. Dujarrier used a uterine curette to remove fat from the knee of a well-known ballerina. Unfortunately during that time, the gynecologic surgeon damaged the femoral artery which resulted to amputation of the leg. Liposuction really began evolving in the late 1960s and became what we know it as in 1974. Dr. Yves-Gerard Illouz of Paris France created modern liposuction in 1982. The procedure he creat