Yet few can actually define the term Mesotherapy. Mesotherapy is a Simple Alternative to Liposculpture Most people, including physicians, have little awareness of the term Mesotherapy and ever fewer understand what Mesotherapy does. Mesotherapy is simply a method of delivering a single drug or a concoction of drugs to a specific layer of the skin. It is a nonspecific term, and in most instances, does not refer to fat removal or body sculpting. This is not surprising, as Mesotherapy was originally developed in France as a technique to treat many disorders -- from hearing loss to baldness. Mesotherapy is really an injection technique and originally used to describe an injection into the mesoderm of the skin and was coined to differentiate the technique from the more com terms intramuscular and subcutaneous. The name Mesotherapy is derived from the area treated, that is, the mesoderm, or the middle layer of the skin.

It has recently gained some recognition in the Aesthetic field as an easy treatment for removal of fat deposits and for body sculpting.