Does Ultrasonic Cavitation Work?

It it highly unlikely that you will achieve significant fat removal from your abdomen with non-surgical ultrasonic liposuction cavitation. On the other hand, liposuction of your abdomen under local anesthesia will remove substantial fat with absolute certainty and low risk in less than one hour.

My favorite technique is power-assisted liposuction because it is even more gentle and effective. (David Stoker, MD, Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon)

Ultrasound non invasive fat removal

There are three major energies used to reduce fat non invasively. Negative thermal energy, freezing, via CoolSculpting has been the leader in non invasive fat removal for fat above the stomach wall and underneath the skin.

It, nor any other technology that is non invasive, can not reduce the fat that is below the stomach wall. Ultrasound, or ultrasonic energy via cavitation, has been used by UltraShape and recently they have developed a more powerful unit as their initial unit was not powerful enough to create significant improvement compared to that which I saw consistently with CoolSculpting.
SculpSure uses light energy of one wavelength, 1064nm., as a laser to heat the fat. I need more time to assess the effectiveness of both the ultrasound UltraShape unit and SculpSure to see if it can reduce fat as well as CoolSculpting. (Ronald Shelton, MD, Manhattan Dermatologic Surgeon)

There are several non-invasive fat reduction devices which report to reduce the area by about 20% or so after a few months, but it will not give the results of a liposuction procedure. (Steven Wallach, MD, New York Plastic Surgeon)

There are number of devices on the market that work in different ways to decrease the amount of fat. When evaluating any new technology, you may consider going back to realself to read patient reviews. (Austin Hayes, MD, Portland Plastic Surgeon)