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Over the past 50 years, in
excess of 25,000 physicians world wide have used Mesotherapy
regularly for variety of purposes, including overall weight
loss, spot weight reduction, cellulite reduction, hair loss,
scar revision and wrinkle elimination.
Injections into the skin may
have been used as early as 400 B.C. when Hippocrates may
have used a cactus to relieve shoulder pain. The hollow
needle was invented in 1832. Procaine injections were given
for trigeminal neuralgia in 1910. In France in 1940 procaine
injections were given around the heart to treat arrhythmias.
In the 1950's Dr. Michel Pistor uses shallow injections of
procaine in various parts of the body for pain relief. Dr.
Pistor coined the name mesotherapy in 1958. Dr. Pistor
founded the French Mesotherapy Society in 1964. In 1981 the
first outpatient clinic opened in Paris to treat injuries in
high level athletes. Between 1992 and 2002 Drs. M. Pistor
and J. Le Coz traveled through the the world to teach the
technique to medical professionals in Europe, South America,
and Africa.
In 2004 the mesotherapy boom started in the United States
and Asia. In 2007 Dr. Le Coz trained over 2500 physicians,
including Dr. Julia Bruce.
The injection technique of mesotherapy was used with
phoshatidyl choline in 1995 to dissolve fat pads under the
eye in 1995. By 1997 injection lipolysis was being used to
inject localized fat pads in many parts of the body. The
procedure was published in Dermatologic Surgery in 2001.
By 2006 over 1800 patiets had been treated. The
consumption of phosphatidyl choline in Brazil was 20,000
vials per monh. No complications were reported.
Dr. Patricia Rittes from Sao
Paolo Brazil is one of the pioneers and researchers of the
Lipodissolve technique. She has been using the technique
since 1995 and now teaches physicians. She personally
instructed and injected Dr. Julia Bruce in 2007.
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