CoolSculpting® Cryolipolysis Facts - Scottsdale, Phoenix Arizona
CoolSculpting® - Freeze you fat away
What is CoolSculpting® Cryolipolysis?
Cryolipolysis is a non-invasive cooling of your adipose tissue to induce lipolysis (breaking down fat cells) without damaging your skin. Over the next two to four months you will see a noticeable, natural-looking reduction in fat.
How does CoolSculpting® Cryolipolysis work?
Cryolipolysis selectively damages fat cellsbecause they are more vulnerable to (cooling) than surrounding tissues.The CoolSculpting®non-invasive applicator is attached to th etargeted area to cool the underlying fat, while protecting the skin, nerves, muscles and other tissue. The cooled fat cells undergo apoptosis (controlled cell death) and are gradually eliminated, reducing the thickness of the fat layer.
What happens to the fat cells?
CoolSculpting® cools the fat and causes fat cell apoptosis, which leads to the release of cytokines and inflammatory mediators. Inflammatory cells will gradually digest the affected fat cells. Lipids from the fat cells are slowly released and transported by the lymphatic system to be processed, much like fat from food. Because the lipid clearance process is gradual there is no harmful change in blood lipids or liver function.
How cold is "cold?"
Lipids in your fat cells crystallize at warmer temperatures than other cells.CoolSculpting® Cryolipolysis targets only fat cells for destruction and spares other tissue such as skin, muscle, and nerves. The CoolSculpting®controls the rate of cooling during the procedure.
Who developed CoolSculpting® Cryolipolysis?
Cryolipolysis was discovered by Dermatologists Dieter Manstein, MD, PhD and R. Rox Anderson, MD, of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Drs. Manstein and Anderson and their research team proved that, under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, subcutaneous fat cells are naturally more vulnerable to the effects of cold than other surrounding tissues. Their initial evidence, published in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine in November 2008, concluded that prolonged, controlled local tissue cooling can induce selective fat cell reduction and subsequent loss of subcutaneous fat without damaging the overlying skin.1 This discovery, called "selective cryolysis," led to the development of the patented technology behind the non-invasive CoolSculpting® Procedure.