Traditional liposuction is surgery and, like any other
surgery, it carries risks as well as downtime. With two external ultrasound liposuction alternatives LipoSonix
and UltraShape-in FDA trials, y...
The Best Beauty Breakthroughs: WRINKLES, AGE SPOTS and saggy skin can sneak up on you. And a glance in the
mirror may leave you wondering whae you can do to look younger. But while many still opt t...
There is a growing demand among patients and practitioners for a more aggressive
treatment to address wrinkles and uneven texture while minimizing the recovery time
experienced from other aggressiv...
Laser lipolysis is performed with Smartlipo (Iaserlipolisi),
a medium-pulse Nd:YAG 1064-nm laser
that targets selected areas of fat for destruction. The
technique removes excess fatty tissue by sel...
A new, minimally invasive surgical procedure called LaserBodySculpting, using the Smartlipo from Cynosure, Inc. (Westford, Mass.), has been recently cleared by the FDA as the first and only device ...
A new 2,790-nm
yttrium-scandium-gallium-garnet laser
provides an option for skin resurfacing
that appears to require less downtime
than does resurfacing with either CO2 or
er:YAG lasers.
"Smartlipo, which received FDA approval for
laser-assisted lipolysis, vaporization of tissue and
coagulation of tissue leading to skin tightening, has
been available throughout the world for severa...