WHY BODY CONTOURING PROCEDURES ARE TRENDING RIGHT NOW
The trend in body contouring procedures is huge right now — driven by a desire to look our best and fueled by innovations that are making treatments easier, faster, and more effective. And the popularity of these treatments is surging with both men and women.
Many of us have experienced the immense challenge that losing weight and keeping it off can pose, and the frustration of living with stubborn pockets of fat that remain despite our best diet and exercise efforts. With new treatments, that final body-contouring touch doesn’t have to involve surgery or downtime. The most recent technologies use freezing, heating, and other techniques to eliminate unwanted fat, often with a simple series of fast and convenient office visits.
While the biggest leap in numbers has been in the less-invasive procedures, some of the surgical treatments, such as liposuction and tummy tucks, have also grown in popularity. These procedures have also seen improvements in recent years to produce more impressive and natural-looking results and speed recovery times.
Here’s a run-down of some of the most popular and effective body-contouring procedures:
COOLSCULPTING
CoolSculpting® is an innovative non-surgical treatment that permanently removes fat cells from specific areas of your body. Its non-invasive technology uses precisely controlled cooling to damage fat cells without affecting the surrounding muscle and skin tissue. In the weeks after treatment, the damaged fat cells are naturally metabolized out of your body.
CoolScuplting sessions take about a half hour for each area treated. After a treatment session, you can walk out of the office and continue with your normal activities. There’s no downtime. The combination of convenience and stunning results makes CoolSculpting one of the fastest-growing procedures available.
BODYTITE
BodyTite™ is a revolutionary new treatment system that produces significant, long-lasting body-contouring results in a single session without the risks or recovery time of surgery. BodyTite uses radio-frequency assisted lipolysis (RFAL) to melt unwanted body fat and suction it out of the body while also tightening loose skin and underlying connective tissue. It’s this double benefit — fat reduction and skin tightening — that has made the treatment so attractive.
BodyTite can be used almost anywhere on the body where you have stubborn bulges of fat and loose skin. Popular treatment sites include the buttocks, flanks, bra roll, back, knees, thighs, arms, neck, and abdomen.
LIPOSUCTION
Liposuction has been around for years and continues to grow in popularity. In liposuction, a thin tube, or cannula, is inserted through small incisions in the skin and used to break up and remove areas of excess fat. For women, liposuction is most commonly used to remove fat from the chin, abdomen, thighs, hips, knees, arms, back, buttocks, calves, and ankles. For men, it is mainly performed on the neck, chin, abdomen, waist (to remove “love handles”), and chest (to remove fat from the breasts).
For an extra level of body contouring, the fat that is removed during liposuction can be processed and placed in other areas of the body that may benefit from additional volume, such as the breasts or buttocks.
TUMMY TUCK
A tummy tuck is one of the most transformative body-contouring procedures available today. The surgery re-sculpts the abdominal area to make it flatter and firmer by removing excess skin and fat and tightening the underlying muscles. The changes it produces are far more significant than what can be achieved with non-invasive body-contouring treatments, but a tummy tuck is a major surgery, so patients need to plan for downtime in recovery.
LEARN MORE ABOUT BODY CONTOURING IN NEW ORLEANS
Dr. Russel Hendrick at the New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery is a board-certified plastic surgeon with special expertise in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the body. He offers a full range of body contouring and other cosmetic treatments. Call us at (504) 533-8848 or contact us today to schedule a consultation.
