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Is Any Damage Done to the Skin During the Fat Freezing Process?
With the freezing technique, if the fat is frozen, what's happening to the skin? Isn't the skin frozen? Damaged? Why doesn't the skin die?
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Knarf
in Kirkland, WA
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CoolSculpting Will Not Damage Skin
CoolSculpting doesn’t burn, shatter or extract any cells. Developed by Harvard scientists, the procedure 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 will remain unharmed.
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CoolSculpting and your skin
Your skin stays protected by a gel pad that is placed between your skin and the machine. The temperature that the machine cools down to only affects the fat cells, which in turn keeps the skin from getting frost bite...
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Cool sculpting and Skin Damage?
Thank you for the question.The cool sculpting device is able to “target” the adipose cells because the skin is protected (with gel pads) during the procedure. Freezing of the skin cells requires a lower temperature than does adipose cells.
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CoolSculpting freezes and kills the fat cells not skin
The scientists of Zeltiq worked out the temperature sensitivities and determined at what temperature the fat cells would perish before the epdiermal cells. It is a selective process and the skin is preserved.
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Coolsculpting procedure done properly protects the skin from freezing.
The coolsculpting device requires that gel pads are placed on the skin to protect it during the procedure. The skin does not freeze because it is protected.
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Coolsculpting and the skin
Coolsculpting is a very controlled and sophisticated piece of equipment that applies a temperature that is specific for killing fat cells and is not low enough to damage epidermal (skin) cells.
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Coolsculpting does not damage skin
Coolsculpting does not damage the skin because skin freezes at a lower temperature than fat. After the procedure, the skin is cold and red, but within minutes, it quickly warms to room temperature. Meanwhile, the underlying fat cells commit "suicide," leaving the patient with a more desirable contour after a couple of months.
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Skin remains unharmed after CoolSculpting
During the Zeltiq CoolSculpting process, a soft gel pad is first place on the skin to protect it from the cooling process. Additionally, the fat cells are "frozen" or crystallize at the higher temperature than the skin. Bringing the temperature to a lower temperature than it takes to freeze the fat, but above the temperature that the skin freezes is the basis to the technology.
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Safety of Coolsculpting, Skin Protection
The skin is protected by a special gel pad which prevents damage. Also, the device constantly monitors the treatment site, if there is any indication that the skin is not properly protected, it will shut down. The CoolSculpting unit accomplishes this by very precise thermal monitoring.
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Can the skin be damaged during CoolSculpting
CoolSculpting is safe because fat freezes at a temperature higher than other tissue such as skin, muscle and nerves. The CoolSculpting device will bring the tissue inside the applicator to a temperature above which the skin will be damaged and not below. This allows one to treat an area without damaging the skin. As the other commenters aptly noted there is also a gel pad which provides some protection.
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No Skin Damage during CoolSculpting
Fat freezing or CoolSculpting by Zeltig destroys fat cells by a process referred to as cryolipolysis. Skin and fat are suctioned into a mechanical head with freezing panels, and over 1 hour the tissue is frozen. About 20% of the fat cells develop ice crystals inside the cell and are destroyed by the body over the next 8-12 weeks. In the early studies with Zeltig there were cases of frostbite and skin death. The company then developed a protective gel pad that is...
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No damage to the skin with Coolsculpting
Coolsculpting does not damage the skin during treatment. Fat cells are more susceptible to cold and are destroyed at higher temperatures that skin cells are. This difference in freezing temperatures allows the fat cells to be destroyed without damaging the overlying skin. The skin is also protected by a gel pad during the treatment.
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