Ulthera are no 1 and 2 on my list.

Ulthera. Check out all of the lawsuits. Click here. When have you ever heard of a lawyer, let alone many lawyers take on case, unless its a slam dunk. There are even multiple lawyers that are doing class action law suits against them. You can decide on that. We were literally offered the first device in New York but we heard about potential nerve damage, so of course we said no. Ulthera utilizes ultrasound. We love it for the body to melt fat safely. Ironically we love melting fat vs freezing fat which we will discuss next. But the nerves on the face are too close to the surface of the skin, which is suspected to be the reason for nerve damage. Whether its temporary or permanent is up to the courts to decide. But why take the risk we have been doing Thermage for 17 years many thousands of successful treatments. Patients love it and return periodically to repeat the treatment because you do lose collagen every day of your life. I only repeated my Thermage after 3 or 4 years when I was in my fifties. In my late sixties I started repeating it every year.

Coolsculpting was so obviously bad that I built two websites to address the biggest concern back in 2016, paradoxical hyperplasia. http://www.Coolsculpting.nyc and http://www.Fatfreezing.info Too bad Lina Evangelista didnt see my websites. She could have avoided the disaster that happened to her. Here are a few articles about that. She was even the cover story in People Magazine she suffered so badly physically that it affected her mentally as well. She claims she was brutally disfigured and sued them for $50 million dollars. But what do I know? I am not even a doctor. But I know how to read. And when we read about the potential horrific side effects, Dr Lisa wisely chose to not even think about bringing that technology into our office. It was written in plain english. I copied Coolsculpting’s website, with their own warning and created my websites to warn people back in 2016. Talk about evil doctors only caring about money. How could anyone in good conscience offer that treatment? And many still do.

So either the doctors are stupid or so greedy they are evil. I understand it. If you read the potential side effects you would not get within 100 ft of it. The crazy part about it all is that even when it works. I will even say it might work over 90% of the time. Although I have only spoken to one person in 17,000 phone calls who said they were ok with their results. But if you melt the fat with a radio frequency based technology, the side effect is smoother tighter skin. So does it make sense to risk being brutally disfigured and if it even worked, you would have more loose skin? vs safely melting your fat, body shaping with a side effect of smoother tighter skin.

I will never forget. I went to the Coosculpting seminar. ( I always keep up on every technology even if I dont think it is good) I have to be able to justify what we do, explain what the latest technologies have to offer. I cant just say off the top of my head this is the way it was 6 years ago.

So I go to their seminar. The salesman says “let me show you something” He google searches bad coolsculpting. You will get the same results today. You see what he even described as a “shark bite” What looks like a dent in someone’s abdomen. He said “isnt this great? You can sell them 8 areas x $600, four in the front and 2 on each flank. So now you can make $4800X 4 or $19,000”. I say for what, to give them 8 shark bites vs a technician working with a wand vs being stuck in specific spots and creating a number of dents.

Its really despicable. Like I said the sad part is you can get a smoother tighter result for less money with any radio frequency technology. We happen to love Exilis but there are probably 50 other technologies that use radio frequency. To be complete before you go running off. Radio frequency needs to be operated at a very high temperature to melt fat. So you better go to someone with at least 10 years experience. It would actually be painful without medication. But you better be with an extremely experienced technician. Not a doctor. Doctors dont operate devices every day so they dont have the most experience. They went to medical school to become a doctor not a technician. I cant believe I even have to say that. And I cant believe to this day I still get uneducated people who want the doctor to treat them. It defies all common sense and logic. Although most people I speak to immediately understand it when I point it out.

While we are on this subject. Which do you think is better? A technician with a wand constantly reaching peak temperature then moving to the next area of a bunch of pads, each stuck to one spot? I have noticed that the “medspas” are now offering cutera which is merely stuck to one spot. Funny its actually kind of like Coolsculpting in the sense its stuck in one spot. Fortunately its not as “effective”. meaning that the effect is so small you will never melt enough fat to see an indentation. The absolute best we can offer today is a wand based technology, where the operator can go to the highest possible temperature and then when she reads she is at the critical temperature she can move to the next area and offer a smooth treatment that tightens the skin while body shaping.

Its really so simple that even us lay people get it immediately when it is explained to us.

One last detail sorry to toot my own horn. But we brought the first BTL Exilis device to New York in 2009. That was 9 years before BTL flooded the United States with Emsculpt. Thats the one you see on social. media. People are happy to show off abs. They are not so happy to show off other treatments. Can you imagine someone going on Instagram. saying look at all of my ugly cellulite or stretch marks before I did these treaments. That doesnt happen. We had one lady that was so thrilled she said show my ass. Of course no face or name. Most of our patients say hell no. Not even just my body part.

Sorry for the long story. But BTL is relaunching Exilis regulated to a much lower temperature so the “med spas” with their completely uneducated inexperienced personnel can offer an ineffective treatment without harming anyone. If you dont go to the higher temperature you are getting a “fairy dust treatment” Fairy dust is the term used for a light sprinkling of vitamins vs an effective dose. So I am borrowing that word to describe an ineffective treatment.

You dont want anyone operating these machines at the effective temperature that isnt extremely experience. Neither does the manufacturer. They dont want to get sued, when someone gets burned. To be clear we have performed probably 20,000 successful procedures since 2007. And we do operate these technologies at the highest most effective temperatures. That is why the most wealthy come back year after year to repeat their treatment. Oh sorry. To be clear in case you didnt notice the difference between your baby and your grandmother, one is full of collagen, the other has been losing collagen every day of her life, just like you are. So the treatments need to be repeated. The older you get the more frequently you will need to repeat treatment.

But it beats the heck out of not making collagen and merely stretching thinning skin over bones.