Understanding Beauty Enhancements

Profile Picture / Display Picture – whatever you want to call it, these are images in social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram personalized by its users to showcase their personality and lifestyle. These pictures are displayed upfront that is why a lot of users upload their best snaps showcasing their assets – good-looking profiles, toned muscles and hourglass bodies. In a generation dominated by these social media platforms, looking your best is not just an option, it is a requirement.

Living a healthy lifestyle is the trend these days. People now are more conscious of how they look than ever before. Eating healthy foods, exercising regularly and monitoring your weight are some of the practices people do to achieve the body that they want. But despite doing all these things, there are still unwanted excess fats in different areas of the body that continue to bulge.

Because of this, various treatments and procedures were presented to solve the dilemma. Liposuction and body sculpting are famous in the medical aesthetic industry to reduce and remove undesirable fats. Let us outline these two treatments and examine how it will work for you.

Body Sculpting versus Liposuction

Body Sculpting and Liposuction are poles apart. As we all know, Liposuction (also known as lipoplasty) is a method that uses suction to remove fat cells from areas of the body that hold larger amounts of fat deposits. During a liposuction procedure, the suction tool called a cannula is placed under the skin and moved around to scrape fat from between the skin and muscle. Because it is a cosmetic surgery, it uses general anesthesia. This means the client is put to sleep for the procedure.

On the other hand, Body Sculpting is a non-invasive fat removal treatment. It is revolutionary and getting a lot of attention because of all the good reasons. Unlike liposuction that requires post-procedure downtime to recover from the surgery, patients who undergo Body Sculpting can carry on with their activities right after the treatment.

There are two different techniques used as agents for Body Sculpting – heat and cold.

Feel the Heat, Catch the Cold

The cold treatment also known as CoolSculpt uses a machine with a cup-like device that pulls the fat out and delivers the cold treatment which results to freezing of fat cells. This process is called cryolipolysis. Once these cells are frozen, they die and over a span of two months, these cells are eliminated from the body. It usually lasts almost an hour and patients can go through repeat treatments if necessary.

In contrast, the heat treatment otherwise known as truSculpt iD, not only heats the fat cells to destruction, but also adds skin tightening and textural improvements to the areas being treated. The skin tightening is a great secondary benefit from this treatment which is focused on those loose skin that are adverse result of pregnancy, weight fluctuations or even due to aging.

Meet the future of body sculpting: truScuplt iD

truSculpt iD, the latest body sculpting treatment solution from Cutera, is customized with unique handpiece and placement location versatility with modified 15-minute protocols to treat a full abdomen or  multiple body areas simultaneously. It is powerful, non-invasive and with Monopolar Radiofrequency (RF) platform that is tailor made for patients’ individual needs.

The innovative Radiofrequency (RF) technology delivers heat to the entire fat layer while maintaining a comfortable skin temperature – optimizing clinical efficacy and maintaining patient comfort.
Treating the entire fat layer, it results to an average of 24% fat reduction after 12 weeks of the treatment.

Now, you must think that 24% fat reduction is too good to be true, considering no sweat or any form of exercise was made. You are probably even wondering how it works. Blame it all on the optimized energy delivery and heating from truSculpt iD that enhances selective apoptosis of the subcutaneous adipose tissue. And because of this, an average of 24% fat cells are irreversibly damaged. After that, fat cells are slowly removed and excreted through the body naturally over a 12-week process. It’s not all magic like what you think, it’s all science.

To prove this claim, clinical histology indicates that truSculpt iD is clinically proven to cause inflammation and fat necrosis from beneath the dermis down to 1.5 cm in depth. The histological findings are complemented by clinical studies which show an average 24% fat reduction as measured by ultrasound.

Another genuine feature of truSculpt iD is the real-time temperature control for clinically proven results, safety, and patient experience. With this, skin temperature is continuously monitored and energy delivery is automatically adjusted to reach and hold a therapeutic temperature of >45ºC in the fat, while maintaining a skin temperature of 3-4ºC cooler. This is also to consider different types of patients’ tolerability toward the treatment.

Apart from all of this, what sets this machine apart from other body sculpting treatments are the truSculpt iD handpieces. It has three types and the first of which is the hands-free 2 MHz 40 cm2 that is used for stationary use. With up to six 40 cm² hands-free handpieces placed simultaneously over multiple localized fat pockets, it can cover up to 300 cm² treatment area on the abdomen and flanks in just 15 minutes.

The second is the hand-held 2 MHz 40 cm2 targets over fat pockets contained within the small or medium treatment templates. Handpiece covers up to 144 cm² treatment area on the body in 15 minutes and is used in a gliding motion. It is tailored for areas large and small.

And lastly, the handpiece used with a stationary placement over soft tissue in areas that are smaller than the templates or anatomically difficult areas is the hand-held 1 MHz 16 cm.2 It covers 16 cm² petite treatment area in 5 minutes. With this tool, you have everything covered, sculpt even the most challenging areas.

With all these three handpieces working together to cover multiple areas of the body and treating simultaneously, it sets a very high standard for patient and treatment versatility.

Having said all these, what really matters is customer experience. What should you expect? What does truSculpt iD feel like? Cutera describes the treatment as being like “a hot stone massage” — a little redness and sensitivity post-treatment are normal, but you can jump right back into your normal routine, including exercise, immediately after you leave the doctor’s office. No post-procedure pain, no hassle, no worries, best results – talk about superior customer satisfaction.