Is anyone having success with Cellulaze?

I have been receiving emails on this post and I just wanted to add my experience. I'm age 48 and had cellulaze done 1 year ago (June 4th approx 2013.) I had the back of my thighs, outer thighs, part of the tops of my thighs and my buttocks. After 1 year I have seen improvement. I still have cellulite, I just don't have as much cellulite. I don't know that I have $7,200 worth of improvement which is what I paid. I can say that I am wearing shorter skirts and I have not done that since I was a teenager. The gross cellulite above my knees on the front of my legs is minimal and the cellulite on the backs of my legs looks like what I'd consider most women who have a little cellulite. The problem happened with my butt. I should have never done that. My butt was tight and firm before. I guess that was all the strands that were tight that held my butt that way. Once I did the cellulaze my butt got all giggly. The cellulite improvement there was about nothing. So now I have a giggly loose butt instead of a tight butt. The other thing too is getting my butt done has caused me to be uncomfortable after sitting for a couple of hours. This is still happening one year later. I can't sit for long periods of time. I think the solution is doing butt exercises. However, I'm just commenting on the impact of the cellulaze. Last thing, for those that are a few months out saying it looks worse. I know it is a disappointing time, and we're looking at the summer and you want to look great. What I do know is that there is alot of swelling that takes many months to heal. The trauma to those areas where the cellulaze is done heal at different rates. So where one area looks better and another is still swollen, this looks like cellulite all over again. If you mark your calendar to see your improvement in one year, there will most likely be improvement. But it is not, at least for me, like the pictures they showed me in my doctor's office where people had cellulite and then they didn't. Those must have been the best case studies or something. Hope this helps. Brittany.

Again I think you all need to better understand what CELLULAZE has to offer. In the correct patient the results are wonderful. But patient selection, criteria are the paramount issue. This is not for everyone who has cellulite and expects a "home run" result. I see % improvements in most but that may net translate into that patient's satisfaction of a result. Realistic expectations and honesty from the PS are the #1 thoughts I have. Also the learning curve to be able to adequately preform CELLULAZE is very very high. The doc should have at least 20 cases under their belts, so to speak, before I believe there are qualified to fully understand the techniques in using the CELLULAZE. Again these are my personal thoughts/opinions. I still do CELLULAZE as the best available FDA approved treatment for cellulite. Regards

After over a year of preforming CELLULAZE with over 100+ cases my findings will be outlined in the following. Does it work? is really the question. The answer is "maybe"! I find the grading of cellulite determines the % improvement in results. Obviously the better the grade of cellulite the easier the possibility of obtain an result is. Grade II improve much better than Grades III. But the improvement in all Grades is seen but to what degree? If the improvement is from a level of 5 to 8 on a 10 point scale than in most Plastic surgeon's opinions that is a good acceptable result. BUT in the individual patient's reality is could not be acceptable. So the "subjective" determination of what is a good result is so varied. Besides using strict patient selection, I must comment on the LONG length of recovery - in my opinion from 9 months to a year. This operation is not a few months to see great results but a long haul. Another issue is the NEED of post operative lymphatic massaging is a must! Finally, the cost to the patients and the expense to the doctors is much to high. The set/up and materials fees are out of line from the company, in excess of $1,000 per case. Thus we have to pass this expense on to the patients. And in my opinion CELLULAZE is a two time at least operations to obtain better results. There are newer technologies becoming available i.e. from VASER. But again at what $$'s. This is my personal view. I still offer CELLULAZE to patients following very strict guidelines and giving very detailed informed consents. In fact my base fees are very reduced, to almost costs, so to allow more patients to be done.

I might not make an friends with this comment but I am curious if anyone else has noticed the difference between the "worth it" reviews and " not worth it reviews? Overwhelmingly, the not worth it reviews contain multiple entries over long periods of time and often have photos as well. This makes me feel like I really understand the reviewer's experience as objectively as she can describe it. Now, if you search on "worth it" reviews and sort on most recent first, about 90% are single entry reviews with no photos. I do know that several PS practices ask patients to provide reviews on realself.com. This makes me wonder how "worth it" those positive reviews really are. At a minimum, I would really like to see more pictures and entries for the positive reviews. I should note that I am day 11 post op and still feeling positive that I'll have a good result. I think I have pretty realistic expectations and didn't hate my legs before, so any visible improvement will be good enough for me.

I had cellulaze 40 days ago on the back and sides of my thighs and butt. My legs look worse than before. I get lumps in weird places and will not show my legs. My doctor told me I would see full results at 3 to 6 months but never told me I would be worse and lumpy for this long!! Very disappointed!

Here is a recent RealSelf article about different treatments to get rid of booty cellulite, including Cellulaze.  What do you think?

I have read the last few comments> Here are the facts if they have not been told to you..... There is significant swelling and bruising for up to 4 weeks. One should not expect the improvement to be initially seen until 3 months ( many of these comments are at 6 weeks). Results continue to improve to the point when you should then really look at it at 6 Months... the result is fairly stable from that time on Hope this helps. Good luck!! Barry DiBernardo, MD, FACS Lead Clinical Research Center for Cellulaze

Not to be a negative Nelly, but.... I had the Cellulaze treatment about 6 weeks ago and am NOT seeing results. In fact, it looks worse than before I started. I have a good surgeon. I've been seeing him for over 10 years. He did lipsuction for me, breast implants, botox, and juviderm. I've been happy with everything else he's done. However, this Cellulaze has not worked for me yet. He said to be patient, that it could take up to 6 months, but it seems that most people see results by now. So far, I am disappointed, and worried.