New energy-based fat removal technology is emerging as the next frontier in noninvasive energy-based aesthetics and is now providing the opportunity to consumers to ask themselves if they would pay $1,000 to $3,000 to lose an inch around the waist. Whereas laser treatment of pigmentation defects is well established and thermal treatment of wrinkles is becoming better understood, noninvasive treatment of fat and cellulite is a frontier that offers wealth (to the device developers) and youth (to the patient) ―if the procedures actually work (a question not yet answered).
That there is a market for weight loss or cellulite treatment is indisputable. According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons there were 450,000 liposuction procedures and 170,000 abdominoplasties―complete...
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