Fat Removal Video Series Part 1: CoolSculpting | Cynthia Mizgala MD FACS—Metairie & New Orleans, LA—

CoolSculpting, the FDA-cleared treatment that uses controlled cooling to eliminate fat without surgery, just released its next generation treatment technology and we have it! The latest enhancements make it possible to treat more problem areas with shorter treatment times (35 minutes) and greater comfort than ever before. New Orleans plastic surgeon, Cynthia Mizgala MD offers a non-surgical treatment to eliminate stubborn fat much faster than diet or exercise - best of all, no downtime. CoolSculpting is a revolutionary technology that targets and cools unwanted fat cells in the selected area to induce a noticeable, natural-looking reduction in fat bulges.

Unlike most other methods of fat reduction, CoolSculpting involves no needles, no surgery, and no downtime. During the procedure, New Orleans CoolSculpting patients often spend time reading, working on their laptops, or simply relaxing. It’s safe, FDA-cleared and effective. Results look natural and are noticeable as early as three weeks following treatment. The most dramatic results are visible after one to three months. In addition to reshaping the body, CoolSculpting can be used to eliminate fat under the chin and contour the neck for a more youthful appearance.

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In my practice, I find making a connection with a patient is way more important than the technology, so I like to sit down with my patients and go over what their expectations are and to give them a basic bottom line from A to Z of all the different technologies. I like to start with the basics.

I first learned about CoolSculpting a few years ago, and what that is, is a very simple approach to fat, and it sounded way too good to be true, because for since I've been a teenager, everyone was looking for a way to lose fat without putting in the effort. Because as we know as mature adults, the most important way to keep fat off is by eliminating our caloric intake and increasing our exercise or caloric output. Everyone knows that and everyone does try to have a healthy lifestyle, but sometimes we just get in a rut or or sometimes we just have a problem area that doesn't respond to the basic theory of physics.

So here comes CoolSculpting. Oh, you can freeze my fat without me doing any effort. Sounds great. Couldn't believe this. So I went back and actually contacted the company to see if they could set up a demonstration in my office, and I was my first patient. And you can see from my before and after results that without dieting and doing this at the worst time of year, Thanksgiving in New Orleans, I had a pretty dramatic result that even I couldn't believe, because it happened so gradually that you don't really notice on a day to day basis, but when you do the three month before and after, my result was quite dramatic.

Seeing is believing. I don't like to offer anything to my patients no matter what the price, what the cost savings are, unless I know it's effective and it's safe. So I incorporated it into my practice, and I love it because a patient walks in, you attach the fat source, whatever area they want to have treated, to the fat freezing machine, which I like to describe for women, who can understand this, it's almost like a mammogram of your fat.

So basically the fat section to be treated has to be able to be pinched in a machine like a mammogram, and sucked into this machine for one hour. That one hour is a little uncomfortable at first when it grabs your fat, but pretty quickly the freezing action of the machine numbs up the area so you're pretty comfortable for an hour, and the only restriction is you do have to be attached to the machine for that full hour for every area of fat that you would like to have done.

You can pretty expect a 20% to 30% reduction of the fat layer per treatment. It's ideal for upper abdomen, lower abdomen, so that would be one hour upper, one hour lower, and then as soon as we add the flanks, it's about an hour for one flank, an hour for the other flank, so that would be four hours, but it can be easily separated anytime: lunch hour, after work, anything that's convenient for the patient, because again, there's no medication, no IV. Just walk in, attach yourself to the CoolSculpting and be done in an hour.

There are some MediSpas that offer this, but beware, because if they have that machine, they may want to try to use it on people that may be not be the best candidate, because the best candidates are people that have a localized area of fat that can be grabbed by the machine, but have good skin tone, so that once the fat is frozen, the skin doesn't sag.

At A Woman Plastic Surgeon, is we can go from the very simple to the very complex. Being a board-certified plastic surgeon in practice for 23 years with an excellent record of safety and efficacy and patient satisfaction, we can be very confident that we can offer something for everyone, versus a MediSpa that might only have one machine and try to adapt that to every body type doesn't really work, and then they come to us to fix it. Because you don't want to use the wrong technology, even if it's a bit cheaper, if it's not going to achieve the patient's desire.