Weight Loss Q&A
100%
WORTH IT RATING
"Worth It Rating" shows the % of consumer reviewers that stated the procedure was "Worth It" or not. See more RealSelf Worth It Ratings or Add Your Review
3 Reviews
Weight Lossbefore & after photos
View Before and Afters

Average Weight Loss Cost: $1,025

Learn about Weight Loss

98 people and 65 doctors are talking about Weight Loss

Get Free Email Updates

Does the Tongue Patch Diet Really Work?

asked 1 year ago by anon
Latest answer by Carmen Kavali, MD
Question viewed 241 times
Tags: diet, tongue

I read that Plastic surgeon Nikolas Chugay is now doing a procedure called the "Tongue Patch Diet" on over 60 patients in Beverly Hills and Long Beach. The tongue patch is designed to “make chewing of solid foods very difficult and painful, limiting the patient to a liquid diet." Do you think it really works? Is it safe? Do you do the procedure?

1 answer to Does the Tongue Patch Diet Really Work?

+1

The latest diet fad: the Tongue Patch

ANY diet will make you lose weight if it means that you are consuming fewer calories than you are burning (or, conversely, burning more calories than you are consuming).  This "diet" works by making it hard to chew food and by allowing only liquids to be consumed.  Motivated people shouldn't need to have something sewn onto their tongues.  This isn't a permanent fix, so when the mesh is removed from your tongue, there's nothing to stop you from going... more
Carmen Kavali, MD

Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

Ask a question