Welcome to Coolsculpting

CoolSculpting is a groundbreaking, non-surgical, FDA-approved fat reduction procedure that actually freezes and destroys unwanted fat cells below the surface of the skin. An extremely versatile procedure, CoolSculpting is the only FDA-cleared treatment for fat deposits on thighs, flanks, abdomen, under the chin, upper arms, back fat, and under the buttocks. CoolSculpting employs scientifically-controlled cooling to target fat cells and allow your body to process the fat and remove the dead cells naturally. This non-invasive body contouring procedure sets itself apart from any other body-slimming treatment. It is ideal for men and women who want to kick start a weight loss regimen or those who want some finishing touches to get rid of fat pockets that are unresponsive to exercise and diet.

Cryolipolysis (using controlled cooling to kill fat cells) is the science behind CoolSculpting. The technology took shape after two Harvard Scientists, R. Rox Anderson, MD, and Dieter Manstein, MD discovered a new type of fat elimination procedure in 1970. They noticed some children developed dimples on their cheeks from eating popsicles. The popsicles’ freezing temperature eliminated small pockets of fat cells on the cheeks without harming surrounding tissue, including the skin. The reduction of fat cells around the area resulted in the creation of dimples. They realized that fat cells are very vulnerable to cold temperatures and tend to freeze faster than other cells. With this, the scientists saw the need for patients to lose fat without experiencing bruising and pain for weeks afterward. 40+ years of research involving more than 5,000 participants support the Cryolipolysis for fat loss.

CoolSculpting works by delivering controlled temperature, usually 4°C. This temperature will not affect your muscles, skin, or other tissues but will be detrimental for the fat cells just below your skin. An applicator is placed directly on the targeted area to freeze pesky fat cells. Unlike ultrasound-based and radiofrequency-based technologies, the targeted fat cells do not release their contents. The fat cells are crystallized and turned into dead cells. Your lymphatic system will process the cells like waste matter, which will then be permanently eliminated by the body over the course of a few weeks. In 1 to 3 months after your procedure, you will have a firmer, more toned and sculpted body, without unsightly bulges.

If you’re considering this procedure, we invite you for a thorough consultation with the CoolSculpting practitioners at Fat Freeze Sculpting in order to determine if the treatment is suitable for you. During your consultation, one of our practitioners will find out about your cosmetic goals and perform a thorough examination. Your practitioner will ask you important questions about your health history to avoid complications that may result if a patient has some preexisting medical conditions. The practitioner will tell you what he recommends and for what reasons. During this time, any questions you have will be answered to ensure you make an informed decision. As part of the process, you will have the opportunity to examine photographs of our patients and work, so you can have an idea of what to expect after your treatment.

During your CoolSculpting procedure, you will be comfortably seated or lying, depending on what part of the body is being treated. The practitioner will place a gel pad on the targeted area to protect the surface of your skin, and the applicators(s) will then be placed at a precise angle for optimum coverage. The CoolSculpting device has two cooling panels, which draw up the skin to properly target the area. The provider will then activate the freezing power of the device. During the first few minutes of treatment, you will feel intense cold, tingling, and a pulling sensation as the tissue is drawn into the device. These may cause discomfort but should dissipate within the first few minutes. Most people find that the cold numbs the area, making the remainder of the treatment comfortable. Each area will be treated for one hour, so you can comfortably read a book, work, listen to music, watch a movie on a tablet or simply take a nap during the procedure.

Once the panels have done their job, the device will be removed, and the practitioner will massage the treated area to break up the crystallized fat cells. This also destroys up to 68 percent more fat cells, which will be reabsorbed by the body and eliminated permanently. You may feel some pain on the treated spot as it warms back to body temperatures and sensation returns. Since each area is treated for an hour, you may have extra time to check in and check out if you’re treating multiple areas. Our staff will be able to help estimate how much time will be needed for the procedure. Once treatment is complete, a compression binder will be applied to provide post-treatment comfort. With the CoolSculpting treatment, your healthy cells remain untouched, so there won’t be any bleeding or recovery time. You’ll be ready to resume your regular activities, including exercise, immediately after treatment.

After your CoolSculpting treatment, there may be some aching or tingling to the area. Many patients experience minimal discomfort after the procedure, but it’s not uncommon to experience bruising, numbness, swelling, tenderness to the touch, muscle spasms, strong cramping, bloating, nausea, pain in the treated area, soreness, and/or aching. In rare cases, patients have reported hardness, freeze burn, darker skin color, discrete nodules, hernia or enlargement of the treated area following the coolsculpting procedure. If any of these conditions worsen over time or persist for more than two weeks, please contact our office for a checkup.

After the procedure, you can expect the area to shrink in circumference gradually. You may start to see results as early as three weeks after CoolSculpting treatment, but it generally takes three to four months to see optimal results.

Many of our Fat Freeze Sculpting clients have the very common misconception that fat reduction and weight loss are one and the same. Actually, they are not. While maintaining a healthy weight is an important aspect of our lives, it does not always provide the look we want. As such, you could spend months working out and dieting, and still not get rid of bulging areas that you just can’t stand.

When we reach adulthood, the amount of fat cells in our bodies becomes fixed. The number doesn’t increase or decrease when you gain weight or lose weight, respectively. Also known as lipocytes or adipocytes, fat cells specialize in energy storage. So, when you consume more fat that is necessary, the extra fat is stored in the adipocytes. This processed fat provides the energy we use for walking, running, talking, etc. Conversely, the stored fat is burned off when the body needs more energy than is consumed. When you gain weight, the fat cells expand, and when you lose weight, they shrink. As such, the body does not get rid of fat cells when you lose weight. In addition, there’s no weight loss regimen that targets a specific area of your body.

With fat reduction, on the other hand, a portion of fat cells is removed from the body. The CoolSculpting procedure is based on fat reduction. It works by freezing fat cells using Cryolipolysis technology. When fat cells are frozen, they are fatally damaged, resulting in up to 25 percent fat reduction at a given treatment site. Obviously, fats cells can no longer store fat or get bigger if they are completely destroyed and processed out of the body. Unlike what happens when you lose weight, the procedure will not change fat cell distribution in other areas of your body. The drastic reduction in the number of fat cells in the treated area will result in visible fat reduction. So, while you may not see changes on the scale, you will look and feel skinnier. Moreover, once the fat cells are destroyed and eliminated from the body, they’re gone for good. Those annoying bulges never return. More importantly, fat reduction improves your health by removing fat in areas surrounding important organs, thereby reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.

While other offices add CoolSculpting as an alternative to other fat reduction methods, for us it is our specialty. At Fat Freeze Sculpting, CoolSculpting is our only service, so you know you’re receiving specialized care from highly qualified and experienced fat freezing providers. We take pride in our focused practice, using the safest and most effective body contouring procedures to deliver results for men and women across Torrance and the surrounding localities. Focusing on only one procedure helps us provide superior services and ensure that our clients get the best possible results, all without surgery or downtime.

Each of our clinicians at Fat Freeze Sculpting is a certified CoolSculpting provider, meaning we offer the highest standards of fat freezing treatment and care. All our specialists have completed a comprehensive training program covering the CoolSculpting techniques, process, and applicators. We take our work seriously and are always up to date with the latest treatment protocols.

At our practice, we always have the latest, most up to date CoolSculpting equipment. Our latest applicators significantly shorten your treatment time so you can be done in as little as 35 minutes. We have several machines, which allow us to treat different areas simultaneously and in half the time. Our applicators come in a range of contours and sizes convenient for all treatment areas and body types. At Fat Freeze Sculpting, you always receive the latest CoolSculpting options so you and your provider can develop a treatment plan that will ensure you get the best results.

Our facility is designed around your treatment experience. Our professional services combined with an impeccably clean and relaxed atmosphere will help put you at ease during your CoolSculpting treatment. Each treatment room has a flat-screen TV, comfy reclining chair, soothing spa décor, and state-of-the-art equipment. It’s all about your comfort and a fantastic treatment experience.

If you’re ready to get rid of unsightly bulges without surgery, contact Fat Freeze Sculpting at 310-919-5296 to schedule a free consultation with one of our experienced CoolSculpting professionals today. We would be happy to answer your questions and help you look and feel your best.

CoolSculpting is a non-surgical procedure, which translates to no scars, recovery period or downtime. With this treatment, you avoid all the downsides of surgery, including incisions and anesthesia. The fact that it is non-invasive also means that it’s a very safe procedure, so you don’t have to worry about significant complications associated with invasive or laser-based procedures.

While the time taken to complete a CoolSculpting procedure can vary depending on the area being treated, it is generally an hour or less. Advanced CoolSculpting technology makes it possible to have an area treated in as little as 35 minutes, which is fast and easy to do, especially if you have a busy schedule. Also, since there’s no downtime, you can go back to your regular activities immediately after the procedure.

With CoolSculpting, the fat is broken down and eliminated by your body over time, which means that the results you’re getting from the procedure are very natural. Unlike surgical procedures, where it can be pretty obvious that you had help dropping the pounds, CoolSculpting will help you lose the fat gradually, allowing your body to adjust and restore elasticity in a natural way. Moreover, while any cosmetic procedure is designed to improve your appearance, CoolSculpting gives you natural-looking body contours that show gradually over time. This is similar to how you’d progressively tone your body with workouts.

What’s more, there’s no need for surgery or any incisions, which means that there are no scars left on the treated area. The lack of scarring is important to many patients who don’t want to lose fat and have another thing that makes them self-conscious about how they look.

CoolSculpting is not a treatment meant to make you look good for a single day. It offers permanent fat removal by freezing fat cells and allowing the body to process and get rid of them naturally. Once fat cells are destroyed, they are never replaced or repaired. This means that it’s highly unlikely to gain fat in the treated area in the future. So your sculpted and contoured body will be yours for the long haul, but it’s important to maintain an exercise regimen and healthy diet so that new problem areas do not appear.

Making positive changes to your body can greatly improve your confidence. CoolSculpting will make you look and feel good after your treatments. When you’re dieting or exercising, you don’t have control over where your body will lose fat, which can make your efforts to spot reduce or tone your body seem futile. So, if you’ve been watching what you eat and adhering to a strict exercising routine, you may have been discouraged if you didn’t get the results you expected. CoolSculpting can help you get out of that funk. So when you’re no longer self-conscious about those bulges and lumps, you’ll feel a lot better about your appearance.

CoolSculpting treatment is not for everyone. Ideal candidates are those who eat healthily and exercise, are within 30 pounds of their target weight but need help eliminating fat in specific areas of their body that resist diet and exercise. The CoolSculpting procedure is not a weight loss treatment and therefore, not a solution for obesity. If you’re obese or overweight, your physician may ask you to lose weight before trying out the fat freezing treatment. CoolSculpting may be the right procedure if you don’t want to undergo anesthesia or an invasive surgical procedure. It is an excellent alternative if you have stubborn love handles, “tummy pooch,” or bulges on your thighs.

You are not an ideal candidate for the procedure if you suffer from paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria, cold agglutinin disease, or cryoglobulinemia. The most effective way to determine if CoolSculpting is right for you is to schedule a consultation with the pros at Fat Freeze Sculpting, the premier CoolSculpting provider in Torrance, CA.

The CoolSculpting treatment involves the use of non-invasive cooling applicators controlled by a monitored engineering system. During the procedure, the physician attaches an applicator to the targeted treatment area to cool (or extract energy from) the underlying fat tissue. The vacuum applicator draws in tissue and gently holds it in between cooling panels. The applicator has sensors, which monitor the skin during the procedure in order to ensure uniformity and consistency. The sensors are connected to the control console to adjust and continuously monitor cooling throughout the procedure and provide feedback to the practitioner. A paging system notifies the physician when the procedure is complete and also automatically alerts him or her of any patient or device issue that needs attention.

In the USA, CoolSculpting is cleared by the FDA as a treatment procedure for visible bulges in the abdomen and flank, thighs, submental area, underneath the buttocks, upper arm, back fat, and bra fat.

Treatment plans may vary from one person to the other. Your Fat Freeze Sculpting practitioner will help you create a treatment plan customized to your specific goals. The length of treatment will depend on how many areas need to be treated during the same office visit. With the latest CoolSculpting technology, your session can last for 35-60 minutes. Some patients may need to schedule additional sessions or office visits to achieve their goals. At Fat Freeze Sculpting, we have multiple CoolSculpting systems and applicators, so that we can treat multiple areas at a go.

Anything involved with touch and feel can be subjective, which explains why responses differ from client to client. Each treatment and each treatment area can instigate varied sensations. Our clients usually describe tolerable, light-to-mild levels of discomfort. Some express feeling nothing bothersome during the CoolSculpting procedure but experience stinging, cramping, numbing, and itchiness at the treatment area(s) in the days after the treatment. Others experience cramping and tightness during the treatment.

Some bruising can occur, and some patients have reported experiencing the feeling or “pins and needles” and numbness. These typically resolve in a few days, with no long-term changes expected. Less than 10% of patients experience significant discomfort following their CoolSculpting procedure.

Because of the cycle of fat crystallization, death, disintegration, and your metabolism, it can take up to three weeks to see changes in the treated area. The most significant results will show after two to three months when your body is in full swing processing and flushing away the targeted fat cells. This process could last up to six months after treatment.

During this time, you won’t notice that fat cells are being flushed out, but you will have the pleasure of seeing the circumference of the treated area shrink over time. Multiple treatment sessions may be recommended to achieve even greater results. How soon the results will show varies with many patients. Because of the fat reduction process is gradual, the skin is able to adjust and restore elasticity. Also, freezing the area stimulates the production of collagen and elastin, which help tighten the skin at the treatment site(s).

With CoolSculpting, the amount of fat cells in the area that was treated is reduced, which is different from weight loss methods such as exercise and diet. Fat cells are reduced by 20%-25% but can be as high as 50% in some cases. Once the fat cells are eliminated from the body, they’re gone for good. So, you won’t have to worry about the fat being deposited in the area ever again. There’s also no risk of the fat cells migrating from another area of your body. Many people keep a healthy diet and active lifestyles to keep the results optimal, after getting remarkable results from their CoolSculpting treatment. The reduction of unwanted fat is a great inspiration to start or continue a sensible exercise program and a healthy diet in order to maintain your ideal weight. However, if you do gain weight, the fat will be more evenly spread all over your body, instead of collecting just in the treated areas. This is due to the reduction of the number of fat cells through the treatment.

No. The CoolSculpting procedure is completely non-invasive and non-surgical, so there aren’t any annoying recovery periods or potential complications. Patients are often able to continue their schedules and perform all their activities like normal on the same day after their CoolSculpting procedure is completed.

No. CoolSculpting is not a diet and fitness program, so there’s no need to take supplements or change your lifestyle habits. After a CoolSculpting treatment, many patients feel as if they got a new lease on their body and become more motivated to take better care of themselves.

The CoolSculpting procedure if FDA-approved and cleared for non-surgical fat reduction on visible bulges in the abdomen and flank (love handles), thigh, submental area, along with back fat, bra fat, upper arm, and underneath buttocks (banana roll). The procedure is also cleared to affect the appearance of lax tissue with treatments of the submental area. This CoolSculpting technology has been analyzed in several controlled clinical studies, and with millions of treatments completed worldwide, this procedure has proven to be a safe and effective treatment to get rid of stubborn fat without surgery.

No. This non-invasive aesthetic procedure is designed to help both men and women look and feel better. Body fat, the desire to get rid of it, it’s resistance to exercise, and diet is not gender specific.

The CoolSculpting procedure is a voluntary cosmetic treatment. Insurance companies manage what services they’ll cover, but in most cases, elective aesthetic treatments such as CoolSculpting are not covered. However, we encourage you to check with your insurance provider to see if they cover this treatment.