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The lower risk of complications and the easier and quicker postoperative recovery give the advantage to the use of multi-layered local anesthesia.<\/p>\n<p><b>Explore more<\/b>:\u00a0 For more information about advances in improving comfort and producing outstanding results, call or <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"\/contact\/\">schedule<\/a> a consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Anesthesia vs General Anesthesia For Fat Reduction Surgery General Anesthesia involves infusing medication usually directly into the veins that force patients to sleep during surgery.\u00a0 Local anesthesia involves injecting numbing medicine directly into the area to be treated and waiting until it is completely numb before the treatment.\u00a0\u00a0 Research shows the risk of complications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.carolinalipo.com\/blog\/the-advantage-of-local-anesthesia-for-liposculpture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Advantage of Local Anesthesia for Liposculpture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Advantage of Local Anesthesia for Liposuction | Renewal Body Contouring<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Local anesthesia is safer, less uncomfortable, and a much better alternative to general anesthesia. 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