I’m worried that ThermiTight could melt fat? I only want skin tightening.

I appreciate your question. One of the greatest advantages of ThermiTight is that the device can be adjusted to customize your treatment to your specific desires. If you don’t want fat reduction, your provider should be able to adjust the machine settings to give you the outcome you want. I recommend working with a board-certified cosmetic dermatologist who has performed many ThermiTight procedures to ensure your procedure is both safe and successful.

ThermiTight is a terrific tool for rejuvenating the skin and eliminating fat, where needed. However, the settings for tightening and fat elimination are different. If the fat is targeted, the probe is placed more deeply and at a higher temperature. Skin tightening is achieved just under the skin’s surface at a lower temperature. If you want skin tightening alone, that’s what you’ll get — provided you are working with an experienced dermatologist. You need to spend time finding an expert so that you’ll get the outcome you desire. Please find a board-certified dermatologist to tighten your skin with ThermiTight.

Thank you for your question.  The answer is a little complicated, in that, ThermiTight can definitely be used to "melt" or destroy fat cells, if that is a goal of the procedure, but it can also be avoided, provided your surgeon is an experienced ThermiTight user.  The beauty of ThermiTight is that we doctors can have very rigid control of the treatment temperature, since the probe tells us the internal temperature, while the infrared camera monitors temperature of the skin surface.  The internal temperature can be set by the doctor, depending upon the desired result.  For purely skin tightening, I would select lower heat than I would if I were also wanting to achieve some fat reduction and I would make sure to keep the internal probe immediately beneath the skin and not down into the fatty layer.  Even with that, there is the possibility that a very small of fat can be damaged, but this is usually not noticeable.  Similarly, any device that delivers heat to the fat layer can also inadvertently damage some fat cells, but again, this is usually negligible.