Lipolysis = Lipodissolve = LiporesolveTM
As Western civilization becomes ever more rotund and as the obsession of magazines and television programming concerns body proportions with low body fat, physicians continue to look for ways to remove body fat without surgery. Each innovation sells for at least a while. Nothing has ever been as effective as liposculpture for achieving harmonious proportions. Yet even then attention must be paid to nutrition and exercise because proportionate shape does not equal low body fat.
Many years ago innovative and often unscrupulous physicians developed mesotherapy to treat any ill that might beset you. The concept was to inject a myriad of substances including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and perhaps even dishwater into the dermis, the lower 80% of the skin, and when these substances were absorbed you would be cured. Each doctor had his own potion and his own technique and the entire field was clouded in disrepute.
More than 15 years ago European physicians began injecting phosphatidyl-choline into body fat and noted that fat was reduced in volume. The technique was confused with mesotherapy because it involved an injection. However, as the technique evolved it was nothing like mesotherapy. The solution concentrations and formulations were standardized and the injections were delivered into the fat and not into the skin. The Europeans formed a society to study this phenomenon and gradually it became accepted around the world. In the United States this technique is variously called lipolysis and lipodissolve and I will soon be introducing the term liporesolveTM. Regardless of its name this is an off-label use of an approved drug and as such it is legal in the United States. I have been using this technique for approximately 6 months and so far all patients have noted improvement in fat protrusions. These are much more subtle changes than liposculpture. However, the lowered cost and absence of surgery appeals to many and since people can return to work the next day it does not interfere with normal activities. Having said that, the area is sore for several weeks, it takes multiple treatments to achieve acceptable results in a given area, and it is infinitely slower than liposculture in achieving improved contours.
Many years ago innovative and often unscrupulous physicians developed mesotherapy to treat any ill that might beset you. The concept was to inject a myriad of substances including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and perhaps even dishwater into the dermis, the lower 80% of the skin, and when these substances were absorbed you would be cured. Each doctor had his own potion and his own technique and the entire field was clouded in disrepute.
More than 15 years ago European physicians began injecting phosphatidyl-choline into body fat and noted that fat was reduced in volume. The technique was confused with mesotherapy because it involved an injection. However, as the technique evolved it was nothing like mesotherapy. The solution concentrations and formulations were standardized and the injections were delivered into the fat and not into the skin. The Europeans formed a society to study this phenomenon and gradually it became accepted around the world. In the United States this technique is variously called lipolysis and lipodissolve and I will soon be introducing the term liporesolveTM. Regardless of its name this is an off-label use of an approved drug and as such it is legal in the United States. I have been using this technique for approximately 6 months and so far all patients have noted improvement in fat protrusions. These are much more subtle changes than liposculpture. However, the lowered cost and absence of surgery appeals to many and since people can return to work the next day it does not interfere with normal activities. Having said that, the area is sore for several weeks, it takes multiple treatments to achieve acceptable results in a given area, and it is infinitely slower than liposculture in achieving improved contours.
posted by Edward Lack MD at 10:21 AM
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