Here Are The Reasons Stated For Fat-Busting Injections Under Scrutiny – Part 1

Why Are Fat Dissolving Injections Popular?

In the current scenario of fat dissolution, controversy surrounds that treatment promising to dissolve fat with a series of injections. 

With just a few simple injections, what if you could banish forever those jiggly thighs, bumpy upper arms, as well as a double chin, and even your muffin top. 

Also known under the trademarked name of Lipodissolve, this is the promise of a type of mesotherapy treatment known as lipolysis. 

Experts say it can literally melt a certain degree of fat from anywhere on the body it accumulates at a cost of between $150 and $800 per body apart utilising a chemical cocktail and a series of between four and ten injections. Appearing to be thriving are at least some medi-spas and salons offering the promise. 

David Goldberg, MD, director of Skin Laser and Surgery Specialists of New York and New Jersey comes with the opinion that at the moment, not without significant concerns is the truth as these injections do work. Involved in small clinical trials of the procedure, is he one of the few doctors to have been involved. 

Including infection, disfigurement, inflammation, and tissue death are reports of complications with fat-busting injections. Already leading to the treatment being banned in Brazil, is a lack of credible research on the effects of fat-busting injections and associated side effects. Both England and Germany have severely curtailed the promotion of these treatments for the same reason. 

Warning consumers against their use by citing unknown safety data and a potentially high rate of complications in the US is the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Issuing temporary restrictions on the use of the fat melting Lipodissolve injections in December 2007 was the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts also. 

Many Doctors Agree With The Precautions.

According to Rhoda Narins, MD, professor of dermatology at NYU Medical Centre in New York City, coming as uncharted waters with an untested, unproven treatment are these. Right now, they don’t know that and until they do, it is going to be a big chance that you could regret having this treatment while it may one day prove safe and effective. 

Treatments in the US and abroad are flourishing not only in medi-spas and salons but in the doctor’s office as well at the same time. Reporting the vast majority of treatments performed are safe and effective, is a safety data survey of some 75 doctors from 17 countries published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal in 2006.

Now, who can be considered right? It is important to understand a little more about what mesotherapy is, how fat-dissolving injections work, and exactly what we do and don’t know about this treatment before you can make that decision. 

What You Should Know About Mesotherapy And Fat-Dissolving Injections

To state the facts, it was first developed in France as early as 1952, as in general, all those fat-busting injections fall under the general heading of that medical procedure to be known as mesotherapy.

As Goldberg says mesotherapy is the injection of something into the skin as there is nothing inherently wrong with that practice by definition. 

Loosely referred to in the media and advertising by the trademarked name Lipodissolve as he also cautions that the consumer definition of mesotherapy narrows down the term to mean an injection that melts fat. 

However important are the differences. Subsequently, it is observed that there comes no double-blind, published, peer-reviewed medical studies thereby conducted specifically on fat-melting injections something doctors say that leaves us with thereby little or no information on how they really work while mesotherapy studies abound. 

As Ellen Marmur, MD, chief of dermatologic and cosmetic surgery at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City opines, they don’t know where the fat goes or how the body deals with it, and if there are any long-or short-term dangers associated with treatment as we know for example that these injections do liquefy fat.

Contributing to a fatty liver, among the possibilities as she says is that liquefied fat is filtered through the liver. Where it could create or add to existing fatty plaque thus increasing the risk of heart attack or stroke as another possibility is that it ends up in the kidneys more likely says Marmur in the blood vessels.

As she explains, they don’t know for certain where the fat goes because there have been no direct studies of liquefying fat and it’s potential for long term harm at this point.

Marmur points out that most, if not all, of this information, come to be anecdotal and while proponents of the procedure thereafter report that patient follow-ups have not yielded any significant changes in lipid profiles. She further states that they can’t bank on it as fact until it's proven in a clinical trial.

When it comes to potential problems with this treatment, where the fat goes may only be the tip of the hypodermic. The risk of infection and some serious consequences is another issue of concern. 

As Goldberg then explains, it comes to be real when the threat of infection is observed. Sterility is a major issue whenever you are dealing with an injectable substance whereas in case the treatment is not being done in the doctor’s office, as many of them are not, they would have to worry. 

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