{"id":6303,"date":"2012-07-22T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:32:01","slug":"spa-fat-melting-machine-not-shown-to-be-safe-or-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/spa-fat-melting-machine-not-shown-to-be-safe-or-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Spa “Fat Melting” Machine Not Shown to be Safe or Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Lindsay Beyerstein<\/a>, here’s another “buyer beware” story\u00a0from the Orange County Register about the LipoTron 3000<\/a> –\u00a0which is promoted in spas\/clinics\u00a0as a\u00a0non-invasive\u00a0way to remove\u00a0stubborn fat deposits.<\/p>\n

For several years, doctors and medical spas around the country have touted a Fullerton company’s fat-melting device called the LipoTron 3000, or Lipo-Ex, as a revolutionary way for people to slim down.<\/p>\n

Signature Medical Spa in Tampa, Fla., described the technology in an online pitch for its “Lipo-Ex Spring Fling Fat-Off!” as “truly the only non-invasive way to reduce fat.”<\/p>\n

Praise also came from Sculpt Medical Spa in Chicago, which called the procedure “the most innovative, effective, and technologically advanced” non-surgical method of removing fat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s only one small problem… the device\u00a0has never been\u00a0given FDA approval for the purpose, and hasn’t been proven to be safe, let alone effective. While safety\u00a0doesn’t appear to be\u00a0a major issue (the article mentions only a few\u00a0minor shocks and burns), the device, which uses radiofrequency waves to target subcutaneous fat,\u00a0doesn’t sound like it works very well, either.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sherwood Baxt, a New Jersey plastic surgeon who advertised the procedure in a promotional video, said that when he bought the LipoTron he wasn’t troubled by its lack of FDA clearance. He explained that he had used unapproved devices before and, while he considered the agency’s green light a marketing advantage, he didn’t consider it necessary.<\/p>\n

Besides, Baxt said, “We were told FDA approval was imminent.”<\/p>\n

It didn’t work out that way, however, and, he said, “After two years, I just stopped asking.”<\/p>\n

He continues to use the device for skin tightening on certain patients but quit using it for fat reduction. For fat reduction, Baxt said, “it wasn’t as effective as I thought it was going to be.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Considering that\u00a0clients\/patients are charged approx. $400\/treatment, and that 6 – 8 treatments is the norm, the lack of data on efficacy or safety is pretty mind-boggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Lindsay Beyerstein, here’s another “buyer beware” story\u00a0from the Orange County Register about the LipoTron 3000 –\u00a0which is promoted in spas\/clinics\u00a0as a\u00a0non-invasive\u00a0way to remove\u00a0stubborn fat deposits. For several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,28],"tags":[642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9986,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/9986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}