Cellulite & scar subcision

Cellulite is like a Chesterfield lounge.

You remember those old-fashioned chairs and lounges? Typically leather, firm, stuffed with stuffing and with the sitting surface held down by a lot of buttons?

Cellulite is like that.

Lumpy fatty stuffing with dimples creating little dips in between the stuffing.

And the essential two ways you can smooth cellulite is by either reducing the lumps or by reducing the dips.

Reducing the dips is like *cutting the buttons of a Chesterfield lounge*

And *that* is subcision.

You stand up, showing me the areas requiring treatment.

I photograph the area, clean it, and mark out the dimples requiring subcision (I'll do what I can, but I often cannot do them all).

You then lie on the treatment couch, and I inject local anaesthetic into the dimples I'm going to treat.

Once they are properly anaesthetised, I use a needle like a Nokor needle or the bevel of a 19G needle to slice, under the skin, the strands of connective tissue (or "scar") tethering down the dimple.

Often then dimple then pops up.

Or, at least, it is improved.

There *will* be bruising. We can't slice these connective strands without causing bruising. But bruises go away, and without subcision these dips in your cellulite will not go away.

Technically, persisting numbness and skin damage could result from subcision, but we have not seen such side effects.

Any surgical scar can heal with tethering and an indented surface. Subcision can help greatly improve the scar surface. 

Appendicectomuy scars, caesarian section scars, and liposuction scars we most commonly help with.

Certain facial acne scars also improve with subcision.