Under the chin, in four visits

Her weight had been stable for a year and everything had changed except the area under her chin. That is the exact profile this treatment is for — a small, local deposit that is metabolically stubborn while the rest of the body has already responded.

We measured and photographed at fixed points before the first session, because gradual change in your own mirror is almost impossible to judge. Four sessions, two weeks apart, each about twenty minutes.

Swelling after each session was the main event of the first three days, and she planned the appointments for Thursdays for that reason. The area looked larger before it looked smaller, exactly as described at the consultation.

The measurement at eight weeks showed a clear reduction in the submental profile and, more usefully to her, a defined line between jaw and neck in photographs taken from below. We agreed at the review that a fifth session would not add enough to be worth it, and stopped.