Dr. Robert Whitfield explains Kybella, an FDA-approved injection that eliminates submental fat under the chin. The procedure requires multiple treatments spaced weeks apart, with temporary swelling and bruising as common side effects.
We're very excited about a new product, Kybella. It's the first FDA approved product to treat submental fat. This area underneath the chin. So we make a series of marks, like a little grid, and we put small injections of the product into the subcutaneous fatty tissues. Usually need to be treated twice, up to three times. You space them out over two, four, six months. But the first injection you do, you'll get some swelling, maybe some redness or irritation of the area, and that goes away within one to two weeks. This can be done in the office. You can leave that day, you can go back to work. You'll have some soreness and some irritation and some swelling, like we talked about. But minimally invasive treatment of submental fat, the actual Kybella product destroys the fat cells and they don't.
