Mesotherapy

What is Mesotherapy? First described in FRANCE by Doctor PISTOR in 1958, Mesotherapy is a treatment method devised for controlling pain syndrome and diseases by micro-injections at the point of the human body where pain is felt or the disease is present. This avoids oral medications which first has to go into the stomach and back through the bloodstream to the point of the pain, lesion, disturbance or disease. Mesotherapy introduces the same medicine through multiple micro-injections at or around the point of trouble, never deeper than subcutaneous or intradermally. Just droplets of medication are administrated. To achieve these multiple micro-injections with an instrument, called a mesogunwhich can be programmed to make one single injection or multiple micro-injections.

How was this name selected? Because "MESO" in Greek means "Middle" and Mesotherapy is always the stimulation of the mesodermal tissue. In the embryonic development you have three tissues: ectodermal, mesodermal and endodermal. In humans, 90% of the tissue is mesodermal tissue.

Why would a small amount of medication, applied at the point of trouble, have a better effect than the standard kind of injection? When you give oral medication or intramuscular injections, you know the total amount you have given, but you don't know how much of this medication is delivered to the site where action is necessary. It is very difficult to know if the diseased tissue has received the amount of medication required to have the desired action. It is more logical to put a very small quantity of medicine at the site of the disease, and/or near the diseased part.

Why is the high speed of the injection an advantage? Because the injection is so quick that pain has not enough time to reach the cortex where it is recorded. There is little possibility of a pain reaction when you give a high speed injection. That is the reason for performing mesotherapy with the automatic repetitive machine.

Is the amount of medication you inject always the same, and what is the amount? The amount of medication we use is between 0.02 to 0.1cc, depending on the disease and anatomy. When we use Mesotherapy for finger-pain or arthritis we use about 0.05 mls around the finger. A larger area, like lumbago-pain, up to a hundred drops. But this is still very little in volume.

How long is the needle you use, and how deep will it penetrate my skin? We use a needle 4mm long, 6mm or 13mm and have a penetration of maximum of 6mm, but usually only 2 or 3mm.

How many injections will you make with the local injector for a local treatment? The number of injections is variable and is dependant on the patient, the disease and the anatomy at the injection site. For cellulite treatment 30 to 40 injections are made depending on the area being treated. But the patient feels hardly any pain with the automatic repetitive injector "MESOMEGA".

Is there any danger in making so many injection? There is no danger with sterile products and disposible needles.

What is the kind of medicine you are using? Almost all formulas have basically Procaine or Lidocaine. Some other products are then added depending on the condition being treated. The very great dilution of the medicine we use can rarely create an allergic reaction in a patient, yet provide great therapeutic action.

What are the most common aesthetic conditions treated? Excessive localised fat, face and decolette rejuvenation (mesoglow) and treatement of diffuse hair loss having excluded medical conditions.

How often has the treatment to be repeated, and at what time interval? This is very difficult to answer. There is no firm rule possible. It is usual to provide a treament every two weeks and a course of 3-4 treatments is recommended. Even after 2 treatments, provided that the advise given has been adhered to, some inch loss should be measurable. For mesoglow, 3 sessions 4 weeks apart are recommended. For hair loss 2 sessions a months for 4 months are required.

What are the percentages of success achieved in treatment of these conditions? In 70% of cases good results are obtained. When successful, it is often very spectacular.