Review by Charles Runels, MD for Aesthetic Mesotherapy and Injection Lipolysis in Clinical Practice
Rating:
There’s a great contrast between the popluarity of mesotherapy in South America and France and even southern Florida compared with most of the United States.

Good evidence including pathology shows how it works to spot reduce fat. This is the best text I’ve seen on the subject, but as a physician who practices mesotherapy, I’d highly suggest that you use the book as an overview and reference and then go to one of the training centers recommended at the back of the book for training.

There’s a great lag for most new treatments: ten years to prove a therapy works and is safe and another 10 years for it to become common practice. Since mesotherapy was introduce in France in 1952, there’s been and unusual delay in acceptance in the U.S that baffles me.

This book gives good photos of the side effects of the stratgey and introduces physicians to the hows and whys. Hopefully, the book will help bring mesotherapy into a more accepted postion to make it more widely available.

The book is proably more than most people would want to read unless they are physicians or nurses. But, it might be worth skimming through even if you’re just contemplating the procedure. I certainly would be glad if any of my patients read it from cover to cover; I would know that they understood the risks and benefits better than most physicians.

If you want to see some actual research, you can find pathology reports posted on my website (see my profile here on Amazon).