I lead a very healthy lifestyle I'm a vegan I've been vegan for about two and a half
years and I do try to exercise I'm not a gym rat per se but I do run and I just can't seem
to lose my fat in certain areas and I'm not willing to really change my quality
of life over it so in other words yeah I could starve myself and go to the gym six
days out of seven and maybe possibly those areas would look a little better but I'm
not willing to compromise my quality of life for that you know and be hangry all the time
this has been something I've wanted to do for a really long time and I already do see dr. Chasen
for Botox so I trust him implicitly I just figured if I trust him with my face I will certainly trust
him with my body you know I I don't weigh myself so it's not a weight loss thing I don't care if I
lose pounds I certainly would like to lose inches but my goal is to be able to walk into my closet
and just put on whatever is hanging there I don't want to go out and buy new clothes I'm not looking
to be a new size even I just want my existing clothes to fit and not have to wear Spanx from
what I've researched online the recovery period is quick easy minimal pain so look I had a c-section
I had twin boys this should be a walk in the park so let's talk about the plan of the day
okay first thing we're going to do is stand you up and we're going to draw essentially create
a roadmap for the treatment because people look very different laying down than they do standing
up once we do that we'll take some pictures and we'll bring those pictures actually into the or
to use as your baseline okay the next step will be cleaning the skin after that we will actually
create these little tiny openings where we'll do the treatment through okay and we do put a
little bit of local anesthetic in before creating those openings and it really won't feel that the
next stage is the local anesthetic and this dilute local anaesthetic is critical for this
treatment serves a number of important purposes number one it's going to make you comfortable
you're not gonna feel the treatment at all okay you'll literally be laying there you
won't even know we're doing something number two it helps to constrict the blood vessels
that's critical because that will decrease the risk of bleeding decrease any kind of bruising
and hastens the recovery tremendously okay it also helps to soften the fat which is helpful
with stage number two which is using the laser to melt the fat and then we're going to aspirate
that stage three or take that melted fat out okay treatment is going to take about an hour for your
love handles when we finish you're gonna walk out and say that was nothing Brian alright so
most people come in they're apprehensive what's gonna feel like how am I gonna feel when I walk
out when they walk out that go this was nothing so hopefully you'll feel that way sure every step
along the way you're awake what's the advantage of being awake number one safety okay you're not
under general anesthetic here and there's not even intravenous for using so being awake creates a lot
of safety number two is accuracy because we can move you around left right sit you up stand you
it makes the treatment much more accurate and number three which is the most important part
you're part of the experience if you really have an appreciation of what happened you'll be able to
see yourself at the end so it really does create a very positive experience for heads right so most
importantly questions do you have questions about the process Jenna you're an amazing candidate for
laser liposuction because your love handles and just out of proportion to what we see above and
below you're really a perfect above and below but in love handles look like there's someone
else's and that's a genetic thing I mean this is not a lifestyle thing this is purely genetics
and what's gonna happen when the love handles come down it's gonna make your curves better
it's gonna make your butt look better I mean just everything and what makes you an amazing
candidate as well is that your skin quality is terrific so your skin is tight so when the fat
goes away that skin is just gonna contract and our results gonna be me so goal of therapy is to
take down the love handles but also contour the area above the butt so the butt will actually
look more curvy and more perky so without actually making the butt bigger the butts actually going to
look more curvy and and much more positive great all right this is our plan of action what we're
going to be doing is taking the bulk down on the sides okay that's gonna come all the way down to
the back okay and what's gonna happen when this area comes down the curve or your butt is just
gonna look so much nicer instead of five instead of less so a lot of times women think their butt
is small and it's flat but the problem that there's fat in them in the back so as the back
fat comes down the butt just looks better without us actually putting any fat into the butt at all
so this is called tumescent anesthesia tumescent anesthesia is dilute light again dilute novocaine
and that serves many functions number one getting you nice and comfortable number two
it is something that softens the fact a little bit making it easier to remove number three it
decreases any kind of bleeding which decreases bruising and that speeds up the recovery so this
is a critical phase of laser liposuction something that I fortunately when this has done the
old-fashioned way they oftentimes skip over or do the very very middle length is there a reason why
some people bruise more than others and is there anything that you can do to decrease so the more
local anesthetic we infuse the better someone will typically do meaning the less bruising they'll
typically have some people are just prone they're just that they're their genetic makeup they are a
little more prone to bruising so you can use a little bit of arnica orally afterwards and
the compression that we use afterwards also helps decrease that bruising you have very very soft fat
so this is gonna be fat good no that's really good we're not gonna have to it doesn't sound
good no it's something that is good it's gonna make it nice and easy to remove I I initially
wanted to get my stomach done because I thought that was my area of concern dr. Chasen showed me
that it really wasn't my stomach it was more so I love handles by so stuck on that notion of Dwight
my stomach rolling over my hands but these flames to me that because of the loose skin in that area
I was not gonna see the results that I would be happy with so but just another reason why
I like dr. Kayson so much is that he didn't just go do what I wanted him to do he could have done
every area I had asked for but he knew that he wouldn't be happy with the results in the stomach
nice and I pushed for that stomach and then I'm still putting even I
just wanted a double text and what we said okay let's see how her skin does
in this treatment and we can always go to her belly so this is a little being
comfortable with an outcome being happy with the results and being conservative
does that look different to different people I guess pretty uniforms different areas of the body
could you have different kinds of fat and healthy guys looks different did I sort artichokes ago no
that would be the avocado now this is not the end result of treatment okay so what we've done
is take down the fat here okay as you can see there's really not much left but there's a whole
bunch of fluid of numbing fluid that's in here now and that is going to go away by tomorrow so
by tomorrow this whole area is going to be flat and curvy okay but how we tell that the fat is
gone is by pinching okay and that told us does we really no fat left and if you look at the before
pictures which will show you again you'll notice that this area was all full of fat and when we're
done this area is going to be much lower than her butt so it's just gonna sweep out so from where we
started where the fat level was about this we're down to we've taken out about two-thirds of the
fat now at least and this is going to be our end point and here where we just we haven't treated
yet rule this way on this side where we haven't treated yet this is the fat so here's the pinch in
an area that we didn't treat yet okay and if you look at the other side the pinch in the area where
we treated is that I'm really not feeling a lot of discomfort at all I just feel like some pulling
and pushing occasionally I'll feel like a little tiny pinch but it's definitely tolerable so one
thing that has to be in place for someone to see if this candidate is skin that's of a high enough
caliber that's elastic of enough but someone's skin is not elastic if it's loose they not they
may not be candidates for this treatment so that's the number one reason why someone you wouldn't see
a candidate and if there's any question and a physician says you're a candidate there's
nothing wrong with getting a second opinion and making sure you indeed are because that would be
the one reason for someone not to has a result they're expecting if their skin quality is just
not quite good enough the most well-known of all the lasers pervasive liposuction is called Smart
Lipo and it's known by name and it really is a kind of a household brand it's like Kleenex or
going to the FedEx something and the advantage of that as the laser is safety and efficacy how
well it works this is an incredible procedure liposuction done a mess and anesthesia ie laser
liposuction could be probably the most rewarding treatment I've seen in the last 25 years aesthetic
medicine but you got to be the right candidate for it and you have to seek the right provider so you
really do want to do your research look online look at reviews look at before-and-after photos
look at the technology that someone's using again there's a liposuction Smart Lipo almost synonymous
with that and and talk to people of it that have had the procedure done ask the NASA provider if
you have a list of patients that you treat it so you can talk to them because this should be a slam
dunk if you choose a great patient someone that's a good candidate their results should be a 10 over
you