CellSound is a groundbreaking technology that fundamentally alters the way we think about non-surgical body shaping and skin renewal. It helps restore skin texture and volume and eliminates fat cells. Dynasty Dermatology offers CellSound treatment in Pasadena, CA. Read on to learn about this revolutionary skin treatment.

What Is CellSound?

CellSound’s Electrosonic Resonance™ technology is a revolutionary approach to rejuvenating cells by safely delivering growth factors, nutrients, increased blood flow, and oxygen. CellSound improves cellular metabolism by painlessly stimulating fat cells to release lipid content and refines lymphatic drainage to improve body contour. These help restore the body’s ability to build collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid while stimulating muscle volume and skin elasticity. 

The procedure is non-invasive with minimal discomfort, as it does not require advanced numbing. CellSound effectively treats patients with all skin types with no downtime and no post-care restrictions. Rapid results are achieved, with ongoing collagen remodeling for months after the treatment. 

What Should I Expect During CellSound Treatment?

When you arrive for your first CellSound treatment, standardized photographs will be taken with a green screen, as measurements can be calculated by the computer. Electrodes will be placed on the skin, so please ensure that the areas treated are clean and shaven (jawline, sideburn, abdomen). The electrodes will cause the muscles on one side of the face or body to contract, while ultrasound gel is applied to the skin surface on the other side.

This ultrasound applicator is passed over the skin, safely delivering warm ultrasound energy to the deeper tissues to stimulate blood flow, clear lymphatics, and stimulate collagen. A separate applicator can be used to target unwanted fat cells to release their lipid content, which can be readily available for the body to use and eliminate. Any exercise performed in the following days becomes more efficient at reducing this fat, while the overlying skin remodels over the next three months.

What Are the Effects of CellSound Treatment?

CellSound can address skin tightening, skin resurfacing and laser scar treatment, neck tightening, and body contouring and fat reduction. 

Skin Tightening

CellSound can provide painless, rapid, and effective results using safe ultrasound energy to target and stimulate collagen production within the skin’s deeper layers. With zero need for numbing or downtime following the procedure, CellSound can address the saggy skin of the face, neck, and abdomen. By promoting resonance of fat cells when a specific handpiece is used, CellSound can also target unwanted and stubborn fat, such as under the chin, arms, thighs, or abdomen and flanks. Multiple treatments once or twice a week can help you achieve the body contour and skin tone that you desire and enhance your skin’s firmness to reduce the signs of aging. With this advanced technology, you can delay or avoid invasive surgery such as liposuction and face lifts.

Skin Resurfacing and Laser Scar Treatment

If you want to achieve smoother skin without the topical numbing requirements or the downtime associated with traditional resurfacing techniques, you can explore CellSound ultrasound treatments. This sophisticated treatment helps to deliver nutrients with improved blood flow, which stimulates collagen and improves your skin texture after a series of painless treatments.

Before your treatment, we will ask you a series of questions to provide you with the safest and most effective results. Certain prescription medications should be used in advance or ordered for post-care recovery. We have a team of highly skilled and experienced dermatologists and aesthetic specialists who are knowledgeable in the latest laser technologies and techniques. We are the skin experts, so we know how to optimize each treatment and promote a faster recovery. We will carefully assess your specific type of scar, texture, individual goals, timeline, and lifestyle to create a personalized treatment plan. We strive to use the latest and most advanced laser devices that can treat the skin of color and ensure your comfort and safety while delivering visible results.

Neck Tightening

CellSound is an ultrasound-based tightening procedure to stimulate collagen remodeling efficiently and visibly in the neck. As we are the skin experts at Dynasty Dermatology, we can assess the main issues causing neck skin laxity, and we have a deep understanding of the specific needs and challenges to approaching neck rejuvenation.

Body Contouring and Fat Reduction

CellSound is the preferred technique at Dynasty Dermatology, as it works by selectively targeting fat cells, triggering a natural process of fat elimination through the body’s lymphatic system.  Non-invasive fat reduction treatments can be performed on the chin, abdomen, thighs, flanks, and arms to help create a sculpted and more contoured look for trouble spots all over the body.

CellSound works by relying on a non-invasive application based on the synergistic combination of two safe technologies:

• Low-intensity of non-focused ultrasonic resonant technology
• Electric current fields to change the impedance of the skin

The CellSound system’s ultrasound transducer is applied to the treatment area and creates mechanical stress leading to cell resonance, which leads to the release of free fatty acids.  A hypersonic non-focused wave of low intensity is transmitted to the tissue.  By transmitting the proper wave to the fatty tissue, the fat cells vibrate and enter into self-resonance.  Electrical current fields are produced in CellSound treatments through four electrodes that are attached to the client’s body in the desired treatment area. 

The electrodes create an electrical field on the skin surface to drive ions through the skin.  The body’s response to electrical current may cause changes in the physiological functions that occur at various levels.  The electrodes create muscle contraction through nerve or muscle stimulation and create changes in cell membrane permeability.

Where does the fat go?

Each of the two technologies has a different effect on the adipose cell:

1. Ultrasound:  creates the resonance effect, releasing free fatty acids without disrupting the cell membrane.
2. Electric currents fields:  assist the free fatty acids in leaving the cell without breaking the cell membrane by increasing the cell’s membrane permeability, thus becoming available for the body to use.

The free fatty acids that are released from the fat cells enter the interstitial tissue. The liver then sends receptors to the free fatty acids and transports them back to the liver via the bloodstream. They are now available for the body to be used as energy. Fluids are also released from the fat cells at this time and are released from the body via the lymphatic system.  The amount of free fatty acids released during a 40-minute CellSound treatment is available for the body to use for the subsequent 48 hours.

When fat cells are not as full after a CellSound treatment, the fat cells become smaller.  When they are smaller, they drift away from one another.  The pressure on the capillaries is reduced, leading to a reduction in the appearance of cellulite.  The blood flow through these capillaries is improved, and the metabolism rate is increased, enabling an improvement in skin texture and regeneration.

As our body uses energy continuously from simple breathing to performing more intense physical activity, it is up to the client to set the result desired.  A test was conducted in the “Hadassah” Medical Center, the largest medical center in the Middle East, in preparation for the medical study on this subject.  The cardio-pulmonary exercise testing checked the body’s use of energy, carbohydrates, and glucose or fat, while the body was active (during exercise).  The conclusion was that a single CellSound treatment increased the utilization of fat in moderate-intensity exercise by 52% compared with pre-treatment values. 

Since the body’s energy demand is constant, it naturally uses the most available energy sources.  The free fatty acids released during the treatment are the most available energy source. Therefore, the free fatty acids that were released from the fat cells during the CellSound treatment are being used first.  The result is a reduction in circumference in the treated area.  Fat cells become leaky, and the fatty acids are bioavailable for use.  Limiting alcohol and sugar intake, exercising, and drinking more water following treatment may further help to flush the fatty acids from the body.   You may also notice increased bowel movements for 2-3 days.

How to prepare for your treatment:

1. No topical numbing is needed, as the treatment is tolerable. There are no needles or injections.
2. Shave any hair in the areas to be treated (lower half sideburns, jawline for face/neck, abdominal hair).
3. No makeup, please. Arrive at the clinic with a clean face, and bathe to remove any body oils before the treatment.
4. We will ask you to wash your face to remove any lotions or oils for face & neck treatments.
5. Wear loose, comfortable clothing that you don’t mind getting ultrasound gel on.
6. We will take standardized photographs of your underwear for body treatments.
7. Consider bringing hair clips or a headband, if you have bangs.
8. If you have any hyaluronic acid filler or chin implants, please advise us where they are placed. It is best not to do treatments directly over these areas (4 months after filler).
9. We will take an extensive medical history as certain conditions are contra-indicated for this treatment (e.g., seizure disorder), and medical clearance may be needed for patients who suffer from arrhythmia or other serious conditions.

During treatment

1. Expect your abdominal muscle to contract involuntarily (feels like a baby moving inside of you) during body treatments, and for uncontrollable facial contractions (spasms) during face/neck treatments.
2. The contractions may feel awkward, but they are tolerable. You may feel like you are making an “ugly face.”
3. The ultrasound applicator must feel warm (about 4-5 on a scale of 1-10), for the treatment to work. The body adapts to the non-focused ultrasound energy and increases the skin impedance.  We will be checking in with you often to increase the electrode settings (increased contractions), which allows the ultrasound to target the tissue.
4. Let us know if the ultrasound stops feeling warm, so we can increase the electrode settings to ensure the best results.
5. We will offer you a mouthguard or one dental roll on each side, to place between your upper and lower teeth. If you experience any dental pain, we can reposition the electrodes and apply more gauze between the gums and the teeth.

After treatment

1. Take your time to get up slowly from the horizontal position, especially if you have low blood pressure.
2. Drink 1 gallon of water a day to help flush out all the fat and any toxins.
3. Weigh yourself every day during the treatment series, which is a good idea for permanent weight loss. Patients who gain more than 5 pounds after their CellSound series may not maintain their results.
4. Avoid alcohol, sugar, processed foods, and simple carbohydrates during the treatment series and for 6 weeks to reduce sugar dependency. You can be sure to watch That Sugar Film, available on Amazon Prime, and read The Obesity Code by Jason Fung.
5. Get adequate sleep. Adults need about 8 hours of sleep a day, and cortisol levels will increase with sleep deprivation. Cortisol causes people to store abdominal fat.
6. Consider creating a food and exercise plan to maintain your results long-term. We can refer you to a nutritionist.
7. There is essentially no downtime in terms of skin care or skin reaction. You can go right back to your daily activities.

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Non-Invasive Body Contouring and Skin Tightening with Zero Downtime Using CellSound Treatment

All age groups and skin types can safely use CellSound. Treatment may be limited or prohibited by some drugs, lifestyle choices, and medical conditions. After discussing your lifestyle and medical history, one of our skincare specialists will assess your eligibility. Contact Dynasty Dermatology to learn more about CellSound treatment in Pasadena, CA.