Learn about Cosmetic Laser Treatments

Male: In one year, 10 million people spent more than 12 billion dollars on some kind of cosmetic procedure from laser that tackles jiggling – to techniques that firm bulging bellies. New approaches are making cosmetic procedures safer and better.

Female1: I would like to have got your point where my curves are natural, where I feel more attend in my body.

Male: When it comes to looks, nobody is perfect and almost everyone has at least one fit where they would like to face.

Female2: All my life I have had these fat deposits underneath my eyelids.

Male: For school teacher Teri Roth, it was tired-looking eyes.

Female3: Parents would come to me and say “oh you look so tired”.

Male: Thousands of people turned to injections like buttocks or facelifts to look younger. Teri tried a new procedure that uses a special fiber optic laser to smooth out her face.

David Holcomb: It helps us to be able to contour the face in ways that we never really could before.

Male: We were allowed inside the room with another woman. Tammy Browning underwent the Accu-Lift procedure.

David Holcomb: So this is where and what were going to be treating this, that is the gel, we are going to take it away.

Male: As we wreck up - our faces group, the laser carries the specific wave length of energy that heats up the milk fatty deposits that accumulate under saggy skin.

Other tools siphons away left inside. Results are immediate and doctor says long lasting.

Doctor: The fat has been removed, so the skin is much closer versus the other where we have not remove the fat yet.

Male: After her eye procedure, Teri was back to work the next day. Convenience and beauty as a price, Accu-Lift costs $5,000-$6,000 dollars. Surgeon seize alone for a conditional facelift averages $6,000. Eyelid surgery averages $2,800. Lasers benefit more than just the face.

Doctor: Do you feel anything?
Teri: I do not feel anything at all.

Male: Matty is getting her first treatment with the Zerona laser.

Matty: I see contraries of perfect world.

Adam Rubinstein: Zerona is the only option that patients have to help augmented your body’s ability to get rid of his fat.

Male: Unlike a laser that melts fat, Zerona uses cold laser energy, it is absorbed by fat shelves.

Adam Rubinstein: The chemical reaction causes a cord open in the fat cell, which allows the fat from inside the cell pulling out. That is when your body can get a hold of it and carried it off and get rid of it in its usual natural process.

Male: Patient requires 6 40-minute treatments over a two-week period that cost about $2,400.

Adam Rubinstein: Patient start telling me that their clothing fits differently and I can next to see it and get around that third and fourth treatment.

Male: In one’s body, the patient loss an average of 3-1/2 inches. Although Marissa Roth wishes to lose more, she is generally pleased with her result.

Marissa Roth: This is a weight loss procedure however I did burn some inches, lose some inches and my clothes got a lot less snug.

Male: The big question is really inches you have lost and find their way back. Because it so new, there is no real proof how effective it is, how long any results to get me last.

Sarvam Terkonda: What do you know look like in two years or five years and we do not know that, what this current technique.

Male: With all of cosmetic procedures performed in a given year, the vast majority, 83% were non-surgical. The top five nonsurgical procedures were buttocks injections, laser hair removal, high uronic acid, chemical pills and laser skin resurfacing. It cost vary from place to place but according to the American society for static plastic surgeon, the cost for a buttocks treatment averages $380 where as laser skin resurfacing will cost about $2,500. Women had 93% of all cosmetic procedures and topping the list of surgical treatments, the breast augmentation followed by liposuction, eyelid surgery, abdominoplasty better known as the tummy tuck and breast reduction.

Breast augmentation averages $3,500 and tummy tuck is around $5,200, this was not taken to account the cost of anesthesia or other clinic or hospital fees. Most importantly, be sure that you are seeing a board certified licence plastic surgeon when considering any cosmetic procedure.