Female Speaker: My diet, my exercise, I eat right, it's just I had a big tummy.
Male Speaker: Nine million cosmetic procedures are performed every year and the state of the hour is changing constantly. Some of the newest techniques use high energy sources to bring back a jolt of youth.
You can run, but you can't hide from the tall, age and gravity take on the body. Even fit people have problem spots.
Female Speaker: My son called it tin across belly.
Male Speaker: For some liposuction is the answer. Now doctors can also offer a high-tech laser lipo, also known as Smart Lipo, using a local anesthetic, doctor insert the laser into a very small hole.
Dr. Rogger Bassin: Everything that the laser tip touches will literally melt the fat.
Male Speaker: Liquefied fat is then sucked out.
Female Speaker: Never go with your cheese burger, my clothes fit better and I feel good about myself.
Male Speaker: Smart Lipo can treat small areas like faces, necks, arms and tummies. It cost about four grand for a initial treatment, 2000 more for each additional area. Then there is a nonsurgical high energy lift for eyes.
Sally Lang: It was after pregnancy and I notice my eyes little sunken in, fat pads protruding.
Male Speaker: But lasers using infrared light can't be used near the eyes.
Dr. Eliot Battle: We couldn't take a chance to treat the eye area. The light will be absorbed by the pigment of the retina causing a potential damage to the eye.
Male Speaker: A new treatment uses radio frequency energy instead which isn't absorbed by eye pigment.
Dr. Eliot Battle: First is the skin has been suctioned up, the light comes on, energy has given.
Male Speaker: It usually takes several treatments over several months to get full results. Each treatment cost about $250. This jolt uses a different energy source, plasma.
Dr. Adam Rubinstein: Plasma is the fourth state of matter.
Male Speaker: Remember from science class, solid to liquid to gas.
Dr. Adam Rubinstein: When you excite a gas, you go to another state of matter, the fourth state which is plasma.
Male Speaker: Portrait skin regeneration uses plasma to heat skin deep within the surface, the result new collagen growth.
Dr. Adam Rubinstein: This really offers a patient a chance to have that rejuvenation done without having to worry about an extended recovery time and having a lot of downtime from work.
Male Speaker: But not without some pain.
Julia Garzon: After the procedure, it's very uncomfortable.
Male Speaker: And the results?
Julia Garzon: It looks good. I would have liked the little bit more results, better result, cleaner around my chin area.
Male Speaker: Which leads to an important point. Can you be sure you'll get the outcome you want safely? Tips you need to know next.
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