By Doctor Valeria Romano
All women dream of having toned legs and buttocks. Diet and exercise alone are sometimes not enough, which is where aesthetic medicine steps in, with its arsenal of treatments that can help us to achieve the body we have always dreamt of, and without surgery.
The three main enemies of a perfect body are localised fat stores, cellulite and sagging skin.
Fat stores are due to an increase in the size and number of adipose cells.
Sagging can concern only the skin or can also include the subjacent tissues.
Cellulite can be adipose and/or oedematous and/or fibrous.
Creams do not achieve significant results. The techniques proposed by aesthetic medicine are:
Mesothreads
Mesothreads are absorbable polydioxanone threads placed under the skin using an ultra-fine needle.
The presence of these threads causes reactional fibrosis which results in the production of new collagen around the thread, thus stimulating the tonicity of the skin that covers the treatment area. This new collagen reduces wrinkles, firms up the sagging skin tissue, smooths creased skin, improves the skin quality and radiance, and densifies the dermis.
V Lifting treats moderate sagging in the arms, abdomen, inner thighs and buttocks, and can also smooth out the décolletage, knees, etc.
Laser radiofrequency
A current is passed through the skin to heat the deep layers without overheating the epidermis. This gradual, in-depth heating causes the existing collagen fibres to contract and accelerates collagen renewal.
This technique firms up the tissues. It is the treatment of choice for sagging skin, as it also significantly reduces the appearance of orange-peel skin.
Mesotherapy
Multiple injections containing a cocktail of draining and fibre-reducing products are performed into the superficial intradermal layers (product injected at a depth of less than 2mm) or deep intradermal layers (product injected at a depth of 4mm), using a gun or by hand. Several sessions are required, with regular upkeep.
Carboxytherapy
The injection of sterile medical CO2 underneath the skin, using a very fine needle, increases oxygenation and local microcirculation in the tissues, which improves skin sagging, fat stores and all types of cellulite (adipose, fibrous and oedematous). Several sessions are required, with regular upkeep.
Cavitation
The ultrasounds delivered create a continuous stream of gas microbubbles in the interstitial liquid of the adipose tissue. These microbubbles continually grow in size until they burst and cause the fat cell membrane to break. The technique is pain-free and the parameters are set according to how much fatty tissue there is. Several sessions are required, with regular upkeep.
Cryolipolysis
Cryolipolysis causes the fat cells to self-destruct within three months of the procedure. The hand piece, which is covered with a protective membrane before being applied to the treatment area, combines suction and cold, which causes the adipocytes to crystallise. Only one session is required.
Pressotherapy
Pressotherapy is a technique which, by alternately compressing and decompressing the treatment areas, aims to re-establish effective blood and lymphatic circulation, which is one of the main causes of cellulite. Several sessions are required, with regular upkeep.
Doctor Valeria Romano
Former Paris Hospitals resident doctor. Degrees in anti-aging and morphological medicine, medical lasers, surgical dermatology, mesotherapy, the treatment of hair loss, and the evaluation of injection and filler techniques in dermatology and plastic surgery.
Member of the French Aesthetic Medicine Society (SFME), the Francophone Society for Medical Lasers (SFLM), the Advanced Society of Aesthetic and Plastic Medicine and Surgery (SAMCEP), the French Mesotherapy Society (SFM), the European LED Academy, and the World Society of Interdisciplinary Anti-Aging Medicine.
