It is difficult to determine authoritatively which one of CoolSculpting and Zerona is a better body contouring treatment. The needs of each patient are unique, and the operating doctor may be in the best position to recommend the most appropriate treatment option. Zerona focuses on the measurement of the inches of fat lost, while CoolSculpting focuses on measurement of the percentage of fat lost. The advantage from a patient’s point of view is that there are two major choices available in terms of non-surgical fat reduction techniques. A patient can make an informed choice in close consultation with the doctor.Coolsculpting Vs Zerona: Which One To Choose? Providing non-surgical body slimming of hips, thighs and waist, Zerona is a low-level laser device that opens microscopic pores in fat cells to allow release of fatty acids and triglycerides. Once released, the body's natural metabolic processes remove excess fat from the body. The FDA cleared Zerona in 2010 as a Class II medical device offering aesthetic treatments for reducing the circumference of thighs, waists and hips.
The laser enables the emulsification of fat tissue so that it leaks out of the cells, thereby shrinking them, without having any effect on the epidermis. Zerona usually requires six sessions over a period of 15 days. The patient is required to come to the treatment center every other day for another 40-minute to hour long treatment session.
It works tremendously well on patients who are already in decent shape but have stubborn bulges or rolls of fat that will not disappear no matter what they do. Some of the areas that CoolSculpting works best on are the abdomen, uppers arms, back fat, saddlebags, and love handles. The method, which was invented by Harvard scientists, causes the fat cells to die soon after being frozen leading them to disintegrate over time and be slowly eliminated from the body in a natural way.
To find out whether you could benefit from one of these treatments, find a practice near you that offers both CoolSculpting and ZERONA. A practice offering both treatments will be most likely to give you an honest opinion about which one is most likely to provide the greatest benefit given your cosmetic goals. This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 10:01 pm and is filed under Body Contouring,Liposuction. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Results with CoolSculpting may get established gradually over several weeks, providing more natural looking transformation. Zerona, on the other hand, is only designed to shrink the fat cells. Therefore, the results with Zerona may be seen faster. However, while CoolSculpting eliminates the fat cells completely, it may not be so with Zerona. As a result, the fat elimination with CoolSculpting is permanent in nature, and the fat cells which are removed will not return.
CoolSculpting KILLS the targeted fat cells - Zerona cannot claim fat-cell elimination. The fat cells are diminished in size but do remain in place. In fact, their own study claims that this change may be temporary and more studies are necessary. In fact, what you see 2 weeks post treatment in their study are test patients starting to gain their fat back! CoolSculpting has no post treatment requirements, diet or exercise regiments. CoolSculpting kills the fat cell!
CoolSculpting literally freezes fat away, and it works more permanently and better than Zerona (low-level laser therapy for body slimming of the thighs, hips and waist). So, if you want to lose pockets of stubborn fat, CoolSculpting is the ideal alternative to liposuction. • CoolSculpting has been cleared by the FDA for fat reduction. Zerona has not been approved for fat reduction; it has only been approved for circumferential reduction (non-invasive body contouring). • CoolSculpting reliably and selectively freezes fat away in targeted problem areas.
Zerona, on the other hand, uses cold laser to disrupt fat cells. The content of the fat cells leak out, but the fat cell remains alive and is not killed. So, the fat cells treated with Zerona can always grow back to their original size after the treatment. That’s why it is recommended to be used in conjunction with a regular diet and exercise regimen. While Zerona is FDA approved, this approval is for non-invasive body contouring and not for fat reduction. We chose CoolSculpting over Zerona as there was overwhelming evidence that CoolSculpting is effective with long-lasting results. The same could not be said for Zerona. In our practice we have used CoolSculpting to treat many patients who previously had Zerona and did not see any results. They have all been very please with their results after just one CoolSculpting treatment!
The melted fat leaves the cells causing them to shrink allowing the patient to lose inches of fat in the targeted area. Conversely, CoolScrupting uses Cryolipolysis to freeze the patient’s fat cells so that they disintegrate and are eliminated from the body by natural means. One uses heat while the other uses cold.