The US Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to 6 US-based medical spas and a company in Brazil for making false or misleading statements on their Web sites about drugs they claim “eliminate fat” in a procedure called “lipodissolve.”
Lipodissolve is also known as mesotherapy, lipozap, lipotherapy, and injection lipolysis. Continue reading FDA warns against selected mesotherapy to eliminate fat →
Dermatologists from Morristown, New Jersey report a case of a woman who developed “scalp abscess with subcutaneous fat necrosis and scarring alopecia as a complication of scalp mesotherapy.” Continue reading Bad effects from mesotherapy →
In mesotherapy, medications are injected into the skin and underlying tissue. The objective is to improve musculoskeletal, neurologic, and cosmetic conditions.
Not many clinical studies, but there was a safety alert in 2005.
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