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Apparatus for controlled contraction of collagen tissue

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  • US 6,387,380 B1
  • Filed: 04/17/1996
  • Issued: 05/14/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of liposculpturing an area of the body including a skin with multiple layers, and an underlying area made of a loculation of fat that has collagen tissue as a fibrous septae, comprising:

  • providing a thermal energy source;

    positioning an energy delivery surface of the thermal energy delivery source on an external surface of the skin;

    creating a reverse thermal gradient which cools a top surface of the skin while heating the underlying loculation of fat, wherein a temperature of the external skin surface is lower than a temperature of the underlying loculation of fat;

    heating the skin and underlying loculation of fat sufficiently to contract the collagen tissue of the fibrous septae while minimizing cellular destruction of the melanocytes; and

    tightening at least a portion of the external surface of the skin.

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