A ^Retired Plastic Surgeon's Notebook

FEELING A LITTLE RIPPED OFF?????

Seattle Plastic Surgeon discusses the limitations of some of the newest, most expensive and most advertized gizmos.

scan0005Take a look at this “before” and “after”.

As promised, here’s the inside of the brochure that shows the “results” and you can be sure these are the best results the company could come up with. The “CoolSculpting” gizmo is promoted as a non-invasive body contouring procedure. I would say non-invasive and ineffective.

Most of the doctors that will purchase this device or one of the dozens similar to it are non-surgeons. These doctors do not know how to do an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) so they offer this instead. I’m sure they go into it with high hopes but how can they not be disappointed at such a “result’? Once they have paid the $$$$$$ for the gizmo, they need to promote it to make sure they get a decent return on investment.

If any of my abominoplasty patients had a result like this, they would feel ripped off. I suspect the doctors using “CoolSculpting” are going to have some unhappy patients. Geez, everyone could have saved all that time, money and gnashing of teeth by referring those patients to me!

 

Category: Body Contouring, Ineffective, Laser Liposuction, Liposuction, New Technology, Patient Beware, Plastic Surgery, Tummy Tuck | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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