How Does Using Lipo Ex Get Rid Of Cellulite?
By Alexandra Lambrou | Published on April 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
One of the biggest benefits of Lipo Ex is that it can do so much at one time. Whereas cosmetic surgery patients in the past may have needed to undergo separate procedures for fat removal, cellulite reduction, and skin tightening, men and women who use Lipo Ex can improve all three conditions at once, explains Dr. Alexandra Lambrou. As the medical director at Sculpt Medical Spa in Chicago, Lambrou has shifted the her practice to focus exclusively on patients undergoing Lipo Ex now that she has seen how much this technology can do.
Although Lipo Ex is primarily known as a procedure to get rid of fat in patients, less is known about its benefits in getting rid of cellulite, increasing collagen production, and improving skin tone. Since it was invented 10 years ago, the Lipo Ex technology has been used to help women across the world, especially in the Asian and South American markets. Still, many people in the United States are just beginning to learn about its many uses and proven effectiveness. “Those creams and gels that people use to supposedly get rid of cellulite just don’t work, Lambrou explains. “But Lipo Ex has been proven to work. There is documented evidence of its effectiveness in this area.”
When undergoing Lipo Ex for the purpose of fat reduction, Lambrou explains that a physician will place a hand piece that emits radio frequency waves on top of the specific area of the body that is being treated, such as the stomach or thighs. Depending on the density of the region, the device may be adjusted to work more effectively. This leads into how cellulite reduction is handled with the machine as well, because adjusting the depths of radio wave penetration will depend on which area is being treated.
“The way the device works is that a physician puts a grounding plate on one side of the body and places a hand piece on the other. As the radio waves pass through the body, we begin heating up the fat cells and making them more porous,” Lambrou explains. Different hand pieces are used to treat different types of fat. For example, a wider hand piece would be used to treat deeper levels of visceral fat, whereas a hand piece that emits a more shallow frequency would be used in treating cellulite. “When we treat cellulite, we used a bi-polar hand piece and we don’t even need the grounding plate,” she explains. “Whereas with areas like the thighs or hips we would use a mono-polar hand piece for the procedure.”
When a patient is most interested in having cellulite removed, the hand piece used during the Lipo Ex procedure only needs to penetrate into the body a half-centimeter to a centimeter deep. Rather than using a flat metal grounding plate, which is placed on the opposite side of the body for patients undergoing Lipo Ex with a bi-polar hand piece, Lambrou says that she would use a series of four smaller, miniature plates for someone whose main interest was on cellulite reduction only. “With the monopolar hand piece we can get the area that we are working on heated to a much deeper level, which helps us penetrate deeper and dissolve the fat in a deeper area,” Lambrou explains.
After undergoing Lipo Ex to treat cellulite, patients may not notice significant changes right away. “Usually patients won’t start noticing any major changes until they have come in for three or four treatments,” she says. “The second half of the treatments is where the progress and cellulite reduction really start accelerating.” Although every patient is different, most can expect to see a significant reduction in the amount of cellulite with six to 12 Lipo Ex treatment sessions.
To help patients measure their progress, Lambrou says she will take photos of the area being treated after every third treatment session. By the time someone comes in for her third appointment, however, Lambrou says the results are usually so noticeable that patients can see the difference on their own, and the comparison photos aren’t even necessary.
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