Laser as Liposuction Surgery Alternative

In the early test of its type, Massachusetts scientists employed a laser beam to shred fatty tissue, a noninvasive method that may one day allow one alternative to liposuction.

A 1,210 nm laser beam with deviated energy intensity of seventy, eighty, and ninety J/cm2 on ten millimeter spots on the stomachs of twenty-four adult subjects with local anaesthesia. Biopsies were done at exposed and control places at either 1 to four days or 4 to 7 weeks. NBTC (Nitroblue tetrazolium chloride) spotting was employed to confirm for thermal impairment to fatty tissue.

Laser beam sessions were dreadful and, for a few individuals, were further impaired by misfunction of contact cooling system. At 1 to 3 days following exposure, a deprivation of Nitroblue tetrazolium chloride spotting was discovered pointing damages to adipose cells,even or there was also thermal damages to the skin, thought to be attributed to the cooling misfunction, discovered in 2 of fourteen subjects. At 4 to 7 weeks following the exposure, the scientists discovered lipo-membranous alterations to the adipose tissue in eighty-nine percent of test spots and, amazingly, thirty-three percent of un-exposed control spots, which they thought caused by handpiece pressure making tissue ischaemia.

Clinical tests are deserved, using lengthier exposures, more effective skin cooling, and bigger exposure areas compared to tested in current pilot histologic research. Pain reduction will be crucial in these studies