Venus Freeze

Multipolar radiofrequency and magnetic pulses · Venus Concept

How it works

Radiofrequency heat through an applicator on the skin

EpidermisDermisFatApplicator, moved over the areaat least 39 °Cat least 41 °C
  1. Faceat least 39 °C
  2. Bodyat least 41 °C

The temperatures are read at the skin’s surface, where the leader points; the manual states no depth, so the heat is drawn fading.

EpidermisDermisFatApplicator, moved over the areaat least 39 °Cat least 41 °C
  1. Faceat least 39 °C
  2. Bodyat least 41 °C

The temperatures are read at the skin’s surface, where the leader points; the manual states no depth, so the heat is drawn fading.

To at least 39 °C on the face and 41 °C on the body, then held. The manual’s end point is the skin’s surface temperature: at least 39 °C on the face, held 5 minutes or more, and 41 °C on the body, held 10 or more, the applicator kept moving. A course is 6 to 8 face or neck treatments a week apart, 8 to 10 on a body area. The manual states no depth, so none is drawn. Illustrations are schematic.

What it costs

Treating the face costs $125 – $225 a treatment on clinic pages

Tap to add or remove an area. Quoted combinations apply where listed.

AreaOne treatment
$125 – $225a treatment
$125 – $225a treatment
one price for both, one clinic’s list$325a treatment
Thirty-four clinic pages, three pricing by area. One clinic sells a series of six at $1,050, $1,650 for face and neck. A third lists $275 an area and $175 the neck without saying what the figure buys, so it sets no row. Canadian dollars before tax, as the clinic pages state them.

Results & duration

Blinded and unblinded wrinkle ratings differed

Two single-arm studies, 11 and 16 people; the maker’s sham-controlled trial has posted no results. Wrinkles improved in 36% of eleven faces to the blinded rater, 82% to the unblinded one. Skin laxity improved in all 11 to both investigators (100%). The sham-controlled trial enrolled 60 and was completed September 2014.

Wrinkles, photographs graded before and after

Improved after eight weeks

36%The blinded dermatologist · 4 of 11 people

82%The unblinded investigator · 9 of 11 people

Face and neck, once a week for 8 weeks, at a Brazilian university. One rater was a dermatologist blinded to the study; the other had watched the treatments.

de Oliveira 2017, PMID 28373880

What the people treated said of their own skin

Saw a visible change

87.5%14 of 16 people

Six treatments on stretch marks, the women’s own report. One author is a consultant, researcher and stockholder in the maker, the paper discloses.

Dover 2014, PMID 25276274

How long does Venus Freeze last?

Not measured past one month. The face-and-neck study stopped a week after the last treatment; the stretch-mark study at one month says durability is not known. Three clinic pages recommend maintenance instead of stating a duration, from once a month to every four months.

de Oliveira 2017, PMID 28373880 · Dover 2014, PMID 25276274 · clinic pages

Recovery & risks

Redness for up to two hours, the manual says

The maker’s manual, the clinic pages and the two studies · 11 and 16 people

Right after
Warmth and erythema for up to 2 hours, the manual says; a treatment runs 15 to 30 minutes.
Downtime
None, the clinic pages say; redness settles within 1 hour on the one that times it.
Reported in the studies
Slight redness and tightening that resolved soon in the face study; no side effects in the stretch-mark study, where all 16 called it comfortable.
Next treatment
Weekly: 6 to 8 on the face or neck, 8 to 10 on a body area, the manual says; 4 to 10 on clinic pages, one saying 5 to 7 days apart.

The adverse effect the manual names

No rate given.

Skin burn

As the manual names it · Illustrations are schematic.

Read from the manual, the clinic pages and the two studies. Redness for up to 2 hours, the manual says, and a burn its one named adverse effect. A burn can happen where the applicator stays too long on one spot, the manual says.

Frequently asked questions

Licensed since January 2011. Health Canada’s licence 84874 covers the Venus Freeze MP2 and Venus Freeze Plus, Class III medical devices. The manual states the use as skin tightening, temporary circumferential reduction, cellulite and wrinkle reduction. A licence records Health Canada’s review of the device against its safety and effectiveness requirements for the use filed; it does not establish every benefit, area or duration a clinic advertises.Health Canada · MDALL licence 84874 · Venus Concept manual FREU802442E, Intended use

GST or HST applies to taxable cosmetic treatments: 13% in Ontario, 5% where only GST is charged. The clinic prices here are before tax. A treatment for a medical or reconstructive purpose may be exempt when it meets the applicable health-care exemption’s conditions, including who supplies or performs the service; its purpose alone does not establish an exemption.Excise Tax Act · s. 165, Sch. V Pt. II ss. 1, 1.1, 1.2 and 5 to 7, Sch. VIII

Ontario names no controlled act for it. The Controlled Acts regulation prescribes electricity only for listed uses such as electrocoagulation and fulguration, and electromagnetism only for magnetic resonance imaging; heating the skin’s surface, as the manual directs, is neither, and nothing is injected or cut. Section 30 still restricts treatments that risk serious bodily harm to regulated professionals. The manual limits the device to trained professionals in medical aesthetics. Other provinces set their own rules.RHPA ss. 27 and 30 · O. Reg. 107/96 s. 1 · Venus Concept manual FREU802442E, Intended user

One of the two studies. The face-and-neck study, at a Brazilian university, declares no conflicts of interest; it is eleven people with no control group. The stretch-mark study discloses an author who consults for and holds stock in Venus. The maker’s own 60-person sham-controlled trial, completed September 2014, has posted no results.de Oliveira 2017, PMID 28373880 · Dover 2014, PMID 25276274 · ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01234259

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