Dr. Robert Whitfield compares Kybella and CoolSculpting for treating double chin without surgery. Kybella works best for small fat pockets and causes bruising and swelling for two to four weeks, with results visible at one month. Both require a board-certified surgeon to avoid nerve damage.
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Robert Whitfield MD
October 23, 2017
Two to four weeks
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Everybody's looking for us to treat everything either minimally invasively or non invasively. So a non invasive treatment for the double chin is the cool mini and we have coolsculpting. The cool mini works by treating a wider area. So if you have a broader area of fatty tissue underneath, that's probably a better option for you. If you have a more focal area of double chin, it's a little bit easier to treat with Kybella and I find Kybella to be very efficient in the treatment of these more isolated pockets. It's very effective. The bruising, swelling can last two to four weeks depending on how that person responds to the treatment. They'll get a little bit of numbness, but the results at one month are very good and they improve after that and you can retreat if you need to. It's important to find an experienced injector for Kybella. If you're unfamiliar with the facial anatomy, you can place the product too close to the nerve and create an injury. So it's important just to find a board certified plastic surgeon.
