Laser nil liposuction system and method

Abstract

A minimally invasive fat cell removal system and method is provided using a numbing component, a laser component, and a NIL component. A cannula and fiber of the laser component are insertable into a body of a patient at a biopsy punch to liquefy a fat cell via a tumescent fluid and/or a laser. A NIL cannula of the NIL component is insertable into the body to remove the fat cell via suction and/or nutation. An anesthetic device of the numbing component may reduce sensation of the body where the cannula is insertable. The fat cell may be harvested and implanted at another location of the body.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for performing a liposuction procedure without a needle, without a scalpel, and without stitches, the system comprising:
 a biopsy punch configured to create one biopsy punch opening in skin of a patient at a location;   a tumescent cannula for injecting a tumescent fluid into a body of the patient, wherein the tumescent cannula is insertable into the body of the patient through the one biopsy punch opening;   a nutational infrasonic liposculpture (NIL) component, the NIL component further comprising a source of nutational motion and a source of suction; and   at least one NIL cannula,   wherein the NIL component is attached to the at least one NIL cannula and wherein the at least one NIL cannula is insertable into the body of the patient through the one biopsy punch opening,   wherein the source of suction creates a suction through the at least one NIL cannula when the NIL cannula is inserted into the body through the one biopsy punch opening and performing a nutational movement within the body,   and wherein each of the tumescent cannula and the at least one NIL cannula pass through the same one biopsy punch opening.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising a jet injector to propel an anesthetic into the skin of the patient at the location. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the NIL component includes an output through which a fat cell removed from the body of the patient through the one biopsy punch opening is harvestable. 
     
     
         4 . A method, comprising:
 raising, without using a needle, a wheal of numbness on skin of a patient;   creating one biopsy punch opening in the skin of the patient within the wheal of numbness without using a scalpel;   spraying a tumescent fluid within a body of the patient via a tumescent cannula that extends through the one biopsy punch opening;   extracting a fat cell through the same one biopsy punch opening via a nutational infrasonic liposculpture (NIL) cannula, while the NIL cannula is positioned at least partially within the body, extended through the one biopsy punch opening, and performing a nutational movement within the body.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein raising the wheal comprises propelling an anesthetic into the skin of the patient. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein propelling the anesthetic comprises propelling the anesthetic with a jet injector. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 4 , further comprising melting, prior to extracting the fat cell, fat around an area within the body of the patient from which the fat cell is to be extracted. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , where melting the fat comprises heating the fat with laser light from a laser fiber that extends through the same one biopsy punch opening in the skin of the patient. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein melting the fat comprises causing additional fat cells to burst into fatty oil. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 4 , further comprising, prior to the spraying, inserting a tumescent cannula into the body of the patient through the one biopsy punch opening. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising, after the spraying and prior to the extracting:
 withdrawing the tumescent cannula from the one biopsy punch opening; and   inserting the NIL cannula into the body of the patient through the same one biopsy punch opening.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein inserting the NIL cannula comprises inserting the NIL cannula while the NIL cannula is attached to a NIL component that causes the nutational movement of the NIL cannula. 
     
     
         13 . A method, comprising:
 creating one biopsy punch opening in skin of a patient at a location using a biopsy punch;   injecting a tumescent fluid into a body of the patient through the one biopsy punch opening;   extracting a fat cell through the one biopsy punch opening via suction through a NIL cannula, while the NIL cannula is inserted into the body through the same one biopsy punch opening and performing a nutational movement within the body;   implanting the extracted fat cell into the body of the patient at a different location through an opening in the skin of the patient other than the one biopsy punch opening.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , further comprising implanting a stem cell with the extracted fat cell at the different location. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the location is a location associated with a waist or an abdomen of the patient. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein the different location is a location associated with a breast of the patient. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein the different location is a location associated with a hand of the patient. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein the different location is a location associated with a buttock of the patient. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 15 , further comprising providing laser light into the body of the patient via a laser fiber inserted through the one biopsy punch opening. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the one biopsy punch opening has a diameter of less than two millimeters.