The purpose of this study is to determine whether green diode low level laser therapy is effective for body contouring of the waist, hips and thighs.
Weight loss and body contouring are large, constantly-growing fields of cosmetic surgery. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) statistics, more than 324,000 liposuction procedures, 233,000 eyelid surgeries and 114,000 facelift procedures were performed in 2004 in the United States alone. However, while the demand for body shaping procedures is constantly on the rise, so is the demand for such procedures to be performed more quickly, simply and most importantly, less invasively. Cosmetic surgery patients are no longer satisfied with procedures that require general anesthesia, pose a multitude of potentially serious risks and complications and that require several weeks of recovery time. Hence the growing popularity of non- to minimally-invasive cosmetic surgery procedures. In 2005, more than 7.5 million minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures were performed, a 35% increase from 2000. Consequently, patients and physicians alike are continually searching for non-invasive alternatives to traditional cosmetic procedures such as liposuction that are efficient, safe and effective.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
72
Red diode low level laser light energy.
non-therapeutic light energy output
Douglas D. Dedo, MD, FACS
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
Cosmetic Surgery
Marion, Indiana, United States
Dr. Gregory C. Roche
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States
Incidence of the Reduction of at Least 3.0 Inches Off Their Combined Waist-hips-thighs Circumference.
Time frame: 2 weeks
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