How it works
The UltraShape® fat reduction and body contouring system meets your patients’ need for a non-invasive, convenient way to reduce localized fat deposits and body circumference. The UltraShape system is the first scientifically and clinically proven non-invasive fat reduction and body contouring solution to selectively target and immediately disrupt unwanted fat.
Focused ultrasound energy: delivered only to tissue within a precise focal volume at a controlled depth
Non-thermal, pulsed energy: no temperature increase
Selective, mechanical effect: only fat cells are destroyed while skin, blood vessels, nerves and connective tissues remain unharmed
Non-thermal Selective Focused Ultrasound
The pulsed acoustic waves of ultrasonic energy converge in a confined focal volume causing non-thermal, mechanical disruption of fat cells. Histology confirms fat cell disruption while surrounding structures exposed to these effects remain unharmed.
Precision and safety are reinforced by an integrated acoustic contact sensor, which provides real-time feedback to ensure proper transducer-to-skin contact and efficient energy delivery to the treatment area. In addition, the advanced tracking and guidance software ensures complete and homogeneous energy delivery providing smooth, uniform body contouring results.
Natural Fat Clearance2
The UltraShape procedure is based on a natural fat clearance process where triglycerides and cell debris from the disrupted fat cells are processed by the body’s natural
physiological and metabolic pathways. These pathways are the same pathways that handle fat during weight loss. Results from UltraShape’s peer-reviewed published multi-center controlled clinical trial and other independent clinical studies show that the released triglycerides do not accumulate to a clinically significant extent in the blood or liver.
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“With UltraShape finally there is a nearly painless, non-invasive, no downtime body contouring option that gives durable results. The system precisely delivers focused ultrasound energy powerful enough to destroy fat cells but leave neighboring tissue unharmed.”
Steven Teitelbaum, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and lead investigator for UltraShape’s multi-center controlled clinical trial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. PRS 120: 779, 2007
2 www.bodyclinic.ch