Subsequent treatments on the same area will not remove the same amount of fat as the first treatment. Most patients have a single treatment on an area. Once they see the changes, they often return to have another area treated. Some patients do opt to have a second treatment on the same area, but that is not necessary for most patients.

CoolSculpting^® is completely non-invasive. Immediately following your session, we massage your treatment area for a couple of minutes to get the blood circulating back into the area after the cooling, but then you’re done and you can immediately go back to work or your other typical activities.

CoolSculpting^® and liposuction have the same target — to remove or lessen stubborn pockets of fat that don’t respond to diet or exercise. But that’s where the two procedures diverge.

Liposuction uses a cannula to suction out fat from these stubborn pockets. But to gain access, surgical incisions are made. Liposuction permanently removes the fat, but can sometimes create dents or lumpy areas where the fat has been removed. After the procedure, some recovery time is required.

CoolSculpting^® doesn’t require any incisions. And its results tend to be smoother because the fat cells that have been frozen are across an area, not simply where the cannula has suctioned (in liposuction) them away. There is no recovery time.

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You wouldn’t combine a CoolSculpting^® session with a surgical procedure, but we have myriad treatments in Spa Vitoria that would maximize your appointment time at either of our two Saltz Plastic Surgery locations.

If you’d like to combine a CoolSculpting^® session with another of our Spa Vitoria treatments, let’s talk about it when you schedule your appointment.

Cryolipolysis is the secret behind CoolSculpting^®. Fat cells freeze at a higher temperature than muscle tissue, blood vessels, skin, and other tissue. Once the fat cells are frozen, they die and the body gets about the business of removing them from the system, as it does with any waste products. The lymphatic system is responsible for this cleanup job, and it breaks down and flushes these dead cells from the body over the course of the next few weeks and months.

You’ll feel some intense cooling, but you won’t feel pain during your session. At the onset, you’ll feel a pulling sensation as the suction draws your tissues up to the cooling panels. Once the cooling is delivered, at first you’ll feel an intense cooling sensation for a few minutes. Most people don’t describe this as painful, just very cold. Then the area becomes numb, and the sensation passes. From there, you’ll feel little. You can read a book, answer emails, watch videos on your laptop, or take a nap during the procedure.

CoolSculpting^® is completely non-invasive. The FDA has approved CoolSculpting^® for the eight body areas listed above. There are no incisions of any sort. After treatment, patients usually have some degree of redness, slight swelling, bruising, and skin sensitivity on the areas where the CoolSculpting^® applicators drew the skin onto the cooling panels. These after-effects are due to the outer skin reacting to the intense cold delivered in a CoolSculpting^® session. They usually pass within a couple days to a week at most. These feelings and sensations don’t keep most patients from returning to work or their normal activities immediately.

Although very rare, more serious side effects such as extreme pain, severe numbing, and bloating along the area of contact with the cooling panels are possible.

At Saltz, we’re big fans of this non-invasive fat reduction treatment, as evidenced by Dr. Saltz being on the CoolSculpting^® National Advisory Board. CoolSculpting^® is the most popular non-invasive fat reduction treatment in the world — to date over 6,000,000 CoolSculpting^® treatments have been performed around the world. This innovative treatment has proven to be a safe and effective way to reduce fat.