Usefulness of Non-invasive Radiofrequency Therapy for Facial Contouring (UNIRFFC)

Kangbuk Samsung Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Subcutaneous Fat

Treatments: Procedure: Noninvasive Radiofrequency TruSculpt

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT02512822

KBC13251D

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the efficacy of novel noninvasive RF technology for reduction of submental fat.

Full description

Recently, Novel radiofrequency (RF) technology was introduced as a promising tool for non-invasive body and face contouring, which can heats subcutaneous fat up to 45℃ continuously without surface damage and induces adipocytes apoptosis.

Subjects with an excessive subcutaneous fat on the submental area received twice treatments at 1-month intervals. Clinical outcomes including the thickness of the submental fat (measured by ultrasound) and the submental circumference (measured by a tape measure), and clinical photographs were obtained at baseline, and 1-month and 6-month after last treatment.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinically appreciable localized excess of subcutaneous fat on the submental area
• no history of systemic underlying disease

Exclusion criteria

• any infectious or inflammatory skin diseases

• keloids

• psychiatric patients

• systemic underlying disease

• who had taken aesthetic procedure on the face, before 6-month

  • more than 5% weight change were dropped out.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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21 participants in 1 patient group

Participants

Experimental group

Description:

Noninvasive Radiofrequency

Treatment:

Procedure: Noninvasive Radiofrequency TruSculpt