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Tongue Patch Diet (also known as The Weight Reduction Patch, Chugay Patch and Miracle Patch) is a diet that involves attaching a Marlex mesh patch to the top of the tongue in order for the person to avoid eating solid food. After being launched in 2009 by Nikolas Chugay, the diet was criticized by health experts and media outlets. However, no severe risks have been reported.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An increasingly popular weight loss measure known as the "tongue patch diet" is getting reviews and warnings from doctors who say the procedure is "dangerous" )〕 == History == Tongue Patch Diet was developed by Chugay, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, in 2009.〔 Chugay got the idea of the diet from a friend who was doing a similar procedure in Mexico.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 'Tongue Patch' Diet: The Experts Weigh In )〕 Chugay introduced the tongue patch diet as an alternative to invasive weight loss methods such as gastric bypass or Lapband surgery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=UPI )〕 In 2011, a similar procedure was introduced in Venezuela. However, the procedure gained more popularity in Venezuela as compared to the USA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Latest Insane Diet Trend? Stitched-On Tongue Patches )〕 As of 2014, Chugay is the only surgeon in the USA who offers this treatment and it has not been approved by FDA.〔 == Procedure == In the Tongue Patch Diet, a patch is stitched to the tongue of the dieter to make the consumption of solid food painful. The patch is made of Marlex and contains no chemicals or medicine.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Now this sounds goofy: A tongue patch for weight loss? )〕 The procedure for stitching the patch to the tongue takes about ten minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Extreme Dieting!! )〕 Since consuming solid food is painful, the dieter has to resort to a restrictive 800-calorie liquid only diet developed by Chugay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Tongue Patch Diet )〕 The patch can be removed any time by snipping the sutures. However, it should be removed within a month or the tongue may start growing on the patch. Some patients have had the mesh in place up to 60 days without untoward effects. In the days subsequent to the procedure, the patient takes antibiotics for 3 days to minimize the risk of infection and washes with an antiseptic mouth wash to decrease the bacterial count. As of 2014 There have not been any reported case of infection〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= A tongue patch for weight loss? )〕 According to Chugay, the diet can help a patient in reducing 30 pounds in one month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= New diet fad includes tongue patch )〕 Chugay and his son Paul Chugay published a study in the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery that said 70 percent of their patients lost an average of 16 pounds and kept it off for eight months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pain = Weight Loss: The Tongue Patch Diet )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tongue Patch Diet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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