Dr. Steven F. Weiner, located in the Destin and Panama City Beach area, will soon have available the new Coolsmooth Handpiece by Zeltiq. This handpiece enables previously untreatable patients to be treated with CoolSculpting and will be in Aesthetic Clinique in April 2014.
Until the Coolsmooth handpiece was developed, the Coolsculpting procedure involved placing a suction device to the area of excessive fatty deposits. This required that there was some tissue redundancy which could be drawn into the handpiece. A subset of patients were not treatable because the tissue was too taut despite there being excessive fat deposits.
The Coolsmooth handpiece can conform to any body type without the need for tissue redundancy because it doesn't reply on suction. Instead of the cooling plates being located in the sides of a suction apparatus, the plates can be laid directly on the areas of the excessive fat. The Coolsmooth handpiece has opened up the treatment candidates to virtually everyone, even those with only very small fat reductions needed.
Coolsculpting has been FDA approved for use on flanks (love handles) and abdomen but physicians have been treating other areas off label including: inner thighs, arms, gynecomastia, bra fat, and back fat. In addition to treating previous untreatable patients, the Coolsmooth offers a treatment for the outer thighs.
