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"Weight Loss Wednesday: Ultrashape claims to melt fat non-evasively
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Meg Farris / WWL-TV Medical Reporter
It's the most common procedure for body contouring in the United States each year, with hundreds of thousand of people going into the operating room to have pockets of fat surgically removed by liposuction.
But now there is new technology being used to sculpt the body and melt fat. It's being used around the world, from Australia to Europe and Israel. People in the U.S. even go to Canada and Mexico to have it done.
“This is an incredible breakthrough,” said local dermatologic surgeon William Coleman. “This is a totally different thing than anything else that's ever been available.”
But now there is new technology being used to sculpt the body and melt fat. It's being used around the world, from Australia to Europe and Israel. People in the U.S. even go to Canada and Mexico to have it done.
“This is an incredible breakthrough,” said local dermatologic surgeon William Coleman. “This is a totally different thing than anything else that's ever been available.”
There are no incisions or down time because Ultrashape is done completely on the outside of the body. We're all familiar with doctors using ultrasound to see an unborn child or the beating heart. But now ultrasound is being used to melt fat and reduce bulges.
Metairie plastic and reconstructive surgeon David Jansen says local doctors are excited by the prospects.
“Because we are all progressing together toward minimal down time procedures, so I'm waiting on the sidelines a little bit until I see more dramatic improvements and then I'm going to hop in.”
Last year one of the premier scientific journals, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, featured an article on Ultrashape. In before and after photographs, the treatments with Ultrashape diminished the size of men's breasts, women's stomach areas and the outer thighs. The study concluded that Ultrashape was very effective for thin people who wanted to get rid of local areas of fat deposits, and who wanted to improve body contouring. But the research showed it is not a treatment for obesity.
Metairie plastic and reconstructive surgeon David Jansen says local doctors are excited by the prospects.
“Because we are all progressing together toward minimal down time procedures, so I'm waiting on the sidelines a little bit until I see more dramatic improvements and then I'm going to hop in.”
Last year one of the premier scientific journals, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, featured an article on Ultrashape. In before and after photographs, the treatments with Ultrashape diminished the size of men's breasts, women's stomach areas and the outer thighs. The study concluded that Ultrashape was very effective for thin people who wanted to get rid of local areas of fat deposits, and who wanted to improve body contouring. But the research showed it is not a treatment for obesity.
“One of the advantages that I see, based on the studies, is that it requires fewer treatments,” said dermatologist Patricia Farris.
“Many of the devices we use to body sculpt now take eight, 10 or 12 treatments. In these studies they did only three treatments, and they did them at one-month intervals and the before and after pictures were pretty impressive,” she said.
Doctors are quick to point out that this is totally different from Endermologie or other external massaging machines used by doctors or spas. Those machines swell fat to temporarily camouflage cellulite. And while Ultrashape has been in other countries for years, it's not yet approved in the United States, but is going through the Food and Drug Administration safety process now. Some doctors have questions about what happens to the toxins and fat liquefied in the body.
“Now it's going to break open the fat cells and release the contents of all those triglycerides within the fat cells, not necessarily into the blood, but into perhaps the spaces in between the cells,” said Henri Roca, a family and integrative medicine specialist with LSU Health Sciences Center.
“This is an issue, since we don't know what that will cause.”
The makers of Ultrashape cite studies published in scientific journals suggesting that triglycerides do not accumulate in the blood or liver.
“So far there haven't been any significant problems,” Coleman said. “It's been used very conservatively, but the problems that have been occurring are mainly small burns and that sort of thing.”
Coleman already knows his clinic in Metairie will be one of the U.S. test sites for Ultrashape, but there is no word on when that will be. For now, people from the U.S. who want a quick fix to lumps and bulges will need a passport to travel to one of the countries where it is available.
Ultrashape is not lipodissolve, it is not fig, it is not injections, it uses ultrasound.
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