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Since CoolSculpting Freezes Fat to Kill It, Why Not Just Repeatedly Apply Ice Bags?
I had a free consultation for Coolsculpt and have read online about the 'popsicle' studies that led researchers to exam whether freezing fat to kill the cells would be effective for spot fat reduction. This led to Coolsculpt. But if this method is effective, why couldn't one apply ice bags on fat bulges and gradually destroy the fat cells?
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JennyChicago
in Chicago, IL
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Zeltiq's CoolSculpting can not be duplicated with application of icepacks to the skin
If one were to try to freeze the fat by freezing the skin with ice long enough, the skin would die and this necrosis would heal with scarring probably. There also can be cirulatory changes to the skin. Zeltiq has been able to preserve the quality of the skin by localized the temperature reduction in the fatty tissues.
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Can the effects of CoolSculpting be replicated by the application of ice bags
CoolSculpting is performed using a device that rather than delivering cold actually extracts energy (thereby cooling) the tissue. The device carefully monitors this process with continual feedback so that the temperatures achieved are such that the fat will freeze but not so cold that other tissue such as skin, muscles, nerves or blood vessels will. One could never monitor such a process with the use of an ice bag. It is highly unlikely one...
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Using Ice Bags instead of Coolsculpting?
Thank you for your question.
The CoolSculpting Machine has been FDA cleared because of it's technology. It has a precise temperature control and feedback mechanism so that it freezes the fat and not the overlying skin. This technology is what makes this procedure precise and successful. You cannot replicate this with putting ice bags on your body.
I hope this helps.
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Coolsculpting is the advanced technology of gradual fat tissue cooling, not of fat freezing.
Dear writer, your question is a very important one. By answering it I hope to satisfy your curiosity and also keep your approach to fatty tissue reduction safe. Coolsculpting utilizes a very specific algorithm for gradually extracting the heat from the fatty tissue. This may be called cooling, but never freezing. This algorithm, carefully studied and designed by world renowned scientist and engineers, is what makes this technology so safe, as well as effective. Putting icepacks repeatedly...
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Freezing Fat with CoolSculpting
CoolSculpting by Zeltiq selectively freezes fat cells while preserving surrounding tissues.
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CoolSculpting Freezing Process
CoolSculpting is an FDA-cleared, patented procedure that uses a targeted cooling process that kills the fat cells underneath the skin, literally freezing them to the point of elimination. Only fat cells are frozen. Your healthy skin cells remain unharmed. Using an ice pack would freeze the top layer of the skin, not the fat cells underneath.
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Coolsculpting is controlled cooling- its okay to eat popsicles!
The fat must be a specific temperature for a specific period of time to trigger fat cell death. While the initial popsicle cases stimulated the idea, cool sculpting was developed through extensive scientific research that identified the precise temperature and time period needed to stimulate fat cells to die and to do this without causing skin damage. The combination of isolating the fat in the suction chamber and maintaining controlled cooling allows for safe, smooth, and reproducible...
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Sacramento Dermatologic Surgeon
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Icepacks instead of Coolsculpting
This will not work and poses a danger as Coolsculpting does not freeze the skin. Coolsculpting is a cold application just above freezing. Keep in mind freezing skin will injure the skin- whereas Coolsculpting is specifically designed to apply temperatures that kill fat but do not injure skin at a temperature below freezing. Coolsculpting works excellent. .
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Good question
When I described what Coolsculpting Sid my friend asked me the exact same question. The beauty of Coolsculpting is that the device evenly cools tissue, with both the optimal time and temperature of the device set. Frozen peas or a bag of ice may actually lead to actual results, but I would be surprised if those results were aesthetically pleasing and safe!
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