Category: Smartlipo TriPlex
Last Minute Holiday Beauty Boosts
With the holidays just around the corner, now is the perfect time to treat yourself to a little self-care. A last-minute touch-up can help you look and feel your absolute best for all the festivities ahead.
Quick Refreshers for Instant Glow
Dermal fillers and wrinkle-reducing treatments like Botox and Dysport are quick, effective ways to rejuvenate your appearance. These safe, minimally invasive options can smooth fine lines, restore lost volume, and give your skin a refreshed, radiant look—just in time for holiday gatherings and photos.
Plan Ahead for Long-Term Results
Winter is an excellent season to schedule treatments that work over time to reveal transformative results. Procedures like SmartLipo and Fraxel not only help sculpt and rejuvenate, but they also take advantage of the cooler months for recovery, ensuring you’re ready to shine when spring arrives.
Wishing You a Joyous Holiday Season
From my staff and me, we wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season filled with peace, happiness, and cherished moments. Thank you for allowing us to be part of your journey to looking and feeling your best.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Warm regards,
Dr. Alexander J. Covey
Tame Your Treatment Anxiety with Pro-Nox: Your Comfort, Your Control
We understand that stepping into a doctor’s office can stir up anxiety for many. “White Coat Syndrome” is real—a rise in nerves and heart rate just from the clinical environment. At our practice, we’ve always prioritized your comfort with various techniques depending on the procedure. With Pro-Nox, you can have even more control over your relaxation.
What is Pro-Nox?
Pro-Nox is a cutting-edge blend of 50% nitrous oxide (commonly known as “laughing gas”) and 50% oxygen. You may be familiar with nitrous oxide from dental visits, but Pro-Nox is different. Its milder formulation is self-administered, giving you full control. Simply breathe through a handheld tube, adjusting the amount you inhale based on your needs in the moment.
Why Choose Pro-Nox?
Whether you’re feeling uneasy about injections or prefer to avoid stronger anesthetics during longer treatments like SmartLipo or Thermage, Pro-Nox offers immediate relief. It takes the edge off without putting you out. One of its best features is the quick recovery time—the effects wear off rapidly, allowing you to drive yourself home after certain procedures where you’d otherwise need a ride.
Safety You Can Trust
You’re in control, but the system is designed to ensure you can only inhale the safest amount of gas. You’ll experience a sense of calm without any lingering drowsiness. This empowers you to focus on your results without worrying about discomfort or post-treatment grogginess.
Next Steps
Don’t let fear or anxiety hold you back from looking and feeling your best. Next time you visit for a cosmetic treatment, ask us about Pro-Nox. We’re here to make your experience as comfortable as possible.
Call our office today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Let’s craft a treatment plan that’s perfect for you—your beauty, your comfort, your way.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Neck Appeal: Top Treatments to Turn Back the Clock on Aging
Just like the skin on your face, the delicate neck area is highly susceptible to aging and environmental damage. Over time, you might notice unwanted changes in texture and tone, such as sagging, wrinkles, or pigmentation.
Brown spots and discoloration, particularly on the décolletage, can become more noticeable due to sun exposure. The chest area may also appear red, blotchy, or wrinkled. In addition, some people develop horizontal lines or bands around the neck, while others see vertical cords, known as platysmal bands, becoming more prominent. As collagen and elastin levels decline with age, the skin on the neck may start to sag and take on a crepey appearance.
At home, it’s important to take care of your neck just as you do your face. Make sure to moisturize, apply SPF, and use retinol products to maintain a healthy, youthful look. But if you’re not seeing the results you want, we offer a variety of advanced treatments that can help you achieve a firmer, more youthful neck.
Here are some of our most effective solutions:
- SmartLipo Triplex: This procedure permanently removes fat by destroying fat cells and tightening the delicate neck skin.
- Kybella: A series of injections that dissolve submental fat (under the chin) while also providing some skin-tightening benefits.
- Infini: Combines microneedling with radiofrequency to tighten the neck and jowls while reducing crepiness.
- Thermage CPT: A non-invasive treatment that tightens the skin on the neck and jowls.
- Exilis Ultra 360: A non-invasive method for tightening the neck and jowls, with the added benefit of fat reduction.
- Fraxel Repair: Resurfaces and tightens the skin on the neck and jowls, improving both crepiness and hyperpigmentation (red or brown spots).
If you’re ready to rejuvenate your neck, call our office today to schedule a complimentary consultation. We’ll create a personalized treatment plan to help you achieve the beautiful, youthful look you deserve.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Understanding Fat: What It Is and How It Affects Us
It’s something both men and women talk about, worry over, and feel self-conscious about. For many, excess weight brings a wave of negative emotions that can affect confidence and behavior. But why does being overweight stir up such powerful feelings? And what’s really happening in the body that makes weight such a big deal? To get to the bottom of it, let’s start with the basics: What exactly is fat?
Fat, also known as adipose tissue, is composed of fat cells—a unique type of cell designed to store energy. You can think of a fat cell as a tiny, microscopic bag filled with oily substance. Most of this fat is stored just beneath the skin, though smaller amounts are also found around your kidneys, liver, and even in your muscles. Interestingly, you are born with a set number of fat cells, and after birth, your body no longer produces more. When you gain weight, these cells don’t multiply; they simply expand. On the other hand, when you lose weight, the cells shrink, but they never disappear on their own.
Your body weight is a balancing act between the energy you consume from food and the energy you use through activity. When you use more energy than you consume, your body taps into fat reserves, breaking them down and shrinking fat cells. To maintain a healthy weight, most experts recommend eating a balanced diet rich in carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, keeping your daily intake around 1,500 to 2,000 calories, and staying active with regular exercise.
It’s no secret that fat distribution differs between men and women. Men typically carry weight in the chest, abdomen, and buttocks, leading to an “apple” shape. In contrast, women tend to store fat in the breasts, hips, waist, and buttocks, creating the classic “pear” shape. These patterns can affect self-esteem and body image, but what if diet and exercise alone aren’t enough to target stubborn fat?
That’s where laser-assisted liposuction, also known as SmartLipo Triplex, comes into play. This advanced procedure permanently removes fat cells in targeted areas of the body. Once the fat cells are removed, they’re gone for good. SmartLipo is ideal for treating small, localized areas of fat that are resistant to diet and exercise. Popular treatment areas include the face, neck, jowls, abdomen, hips, waist, arms, back, and even male breasts.
The laser used in SmartLipo has a twofold benefit. First, it melts the fat by causing fat cells to swell and burst, turning them into fatty oil that your body can naturally eliminate. Secondly, the laser stimulates collagen production, which tightens and firms the skin. After a SmartLipo treatment, you’ll notice not only a loss of inches but also tighter, smoother skin.
Curious if SmartLipo is the right solution for you? Take the next step toward feeling more confident and comfortable in your skin—schedule your appointment today!
September, Seriously
As fall arrives, it’s time to buckle down and focus on work and studies. With vacation days behind us, we often become more serious about our daily responsibilities. A crucial part of every day is how we feel, with happiness being a top priority for many. When we’re happy, we tend to excel in all areas of life—whether at work, home, school, or elsewhere.
Our self-perception plays a significant role in our happiness. The more confident we are in our abilities, the more secure we feel emotionally, and the more enthusiastic we are about life’s experiences, the happier we become. How we feel about our appearance also contributes to our overall well-being. The saying “Look good, feel good” holds true, and we’re here to help you embody that.
Now is an excellent time to focus on self-improvement, making subtle changes that enhance your natural beauty and boost your confidence. Fall is the perfect season to get serious about refining your look. Here are our top recommendations for this month:
Lift Your Spirits and Your Skin: With advanced dermal fillers like Juvederm, Radiesse, and the Restylane family, we can lift and contour your facial features, restoring natural fullness exactly where it’s needed. This nonsurgical, virtually pain-free “liquid facelift” can reduce wrinkles, lines, and folds, giving you a more refreshed and youthful appearance.
Whether we’re lifting the entire face or targeting specific areas such as under-eye bags, marionette lines, sagging eyelids, jowls, or flattened cheeks, we can even disguise bumps on the nose—avoiding the need for surgery and anesthesia, with no downtime required.
No More Turtlenecks: Infini microneedling is a particularly effective treatment for enhancing your skin’s natural production of collagen and elastin, two vital components for keeping your skin youthful and plump. Tiny needles penetrate the top layer of your skin, triggering new collagen and elastin production. This can lead to improved skin texture and firmness, with excellent results in reducing acne scars, pore size, and stretch marks.
Say Eye: Thermage CPT, often hailed as the first nonsurgical facelift, can transform your skin from head to toe. This thermal lift tightens loose skin on the eyelids, under-eye areas, abdomen, arms, legs, and even the buttocks. For the eye area, Thermage CPT reduces hooding, improves texture, and softens fine lines and crow’s feet. It’s a safe and effective option for eyelid rejuvenation.
Shape a Better You: SmartLipo Triplex is a minimally invasive method for removing unwanted fat and sculpting the body. This laser treatment melts fat cells and suctions them away. The updated Triplex technology uses three wavelengths of laser light for better fat removal, tighter skin, and high-definition body sculpting.
Schedule a complimentary consultation with our office, and we’ll create a personalized treatment plan just for you.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Struggling with Weight Loss? Consider Body Sculpting
I hear from many of you that losing weight is a challenge, despite trying various strategies. You might exercise regularly and watch your calorie intake but still struggle to shed even a few pounds. This issue is particularly common as metabolism slows down with age or due to hormonal changes, especially for women who tend to store more fat than men.
If you’re contemplating body contouring, here are some important questions to ask yourself. Count how many you can answer with a “yes.”
- Do you watch your portion size, eating small amounts more frequently?
- Do you make sure to eat breakfast?
- Do you graze instead of eating three large meals a day?
- Do you avoid eating late at night?
- Do you avoid refined grains such as white bread and crackers?
- Do you avoid hidden sugars and fats?
- Do you avoid processed foods that contain MSG, sodium nitrate, and other risky food additives?
- Do you include weight training with your cardio workouts?
- Do you do resistance exercises to build muscle?
- Do you mix up the types of workouts that you do?
- Are you sleeping 6 to 8 hours a day?
If you answered “yes” to most of these questions, you’re on the right track. However, if you’re still struggling to lose weight and don’t have an underlying medical condition, you might be a good candidate for SmartLipo, a body sculpting procedure.
Call our office to set up a complimentary consultation. We’ll discuss your personal experience and explore how we can help. In the meantime, keep up the good work, and we’ll see you soon!
Turning Back Time: Effective Treatments for Sagging Skin
Sagging skin isn’t something you mark on your calendar: “Skin sagging, July 15th.” It’s a gradual change that sneaks up on you until one day, you notice it.
The once firm and taut skin now appears to droop. You understand that your body’s collagen production has slowed, but the effects are more noticeable than expected. Collagen, the natural substance that supports your skin, helps maintain a youthful and lifted appearance. As it depletes due to aging, hereditary factors, or environmental influences, your skin may begin to sag. This, combined with a decrease in elastin, the material that provides suppleness and resilience, results in a loss of skin tension and elasticity.
No area of your body is immune. You might notice sagging on your face, neck, eyelids, abdomen, arms, legs, and buttocks. While no non-surgical treatment can completely reverse this process, many options can significantly improve your appearance. We offer safe and effective treatments designed to help your skin look younger and tighter.
Here are a few:
- Thermage CPT: A thermal lift particularly effective for reducing loose skin around the eyes.
- Exilis Ultra 360: This treatment combines radiofrequency and ultrasound to offer maximum power and targeted control, focusing on specific areas that need attention.
- INFINI: A high-energy radiofrequency device that smooths wrinkles and plumps skin, also helpful for minimizing acne scarring.
- Fraxel Repair: A laser treatment that reduces deep lines, hard-to-erase lip lines, pronounced photodamage, sagging face and neck skin, facial wrinkles and discolorations, rough skin texture, and both acne and surgical scars.
- SmartLipo Triplex: A laser treatment that simultaneously removes fat and tightens skin.
- Kybella: A treatment used to minimize submental fat, commonly known as the “double chin.”
If sagging skin concerns you, come in and talk with us about how we can help you feel better. Our consultations are complimentary, so call today to schedule an appointment.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Men, Body Image Consciousness, and Cosmetic Solutions
Body image struggles have typically been associated with women, but it’s essential to recognize that men also grapple with societal pressures and appearance-related insecurities. From the desire for a muscular physique to worries about aging signs or hair loss, men experience a range of body image issues that can impact their self-esteem and overall mental health.
Body image concerns can profoundly affect men’s mental health. Dissatisfaction with one’s appearance can lead to depression, anxiety, and even eating disorders. However, cosmetic treatments offer viable solutions that can help address these concerns and boost self-confidence.
Cosmetic procedures tailored for men have gained popularity in recent years, offering solutions to enhance physical appearance and address specific concerns. These treatments include:
Body Contouring: For men struggling to achieve their desired physique, body contouring procedures like Smartlipo and Exilis Ultra 360 can target stubborn fat deposits and sculpt a more defined silhouette, enhancing muscle definition and body proportions.
Facial Rejuvenation: Aging signs such as wrinkles, fine lines, and volume loss can impact men’s confidence. Treatments like Botox, dermal fillers, and laser skin resurfacing such as Fraxel, can rejuvenate the skin, reducing wrinkles and restoring youthful facial contour.
Male body image concerns are complex and multifaceted, but they are not insurmountable. By acknowledging these challenges and promoting open dialogue, we can create a supportive environment where men feel empowered to address their insecurities and pursue treatments that enhance their confidence and well-being.
See you soon.
Reclaim Your Youth: Non-Invasive Solutions for Sagging Skin
As time passes, it’s natural for our skin to undergo changes. The once firm and resilient appearance may give way to sagging and drooping, signaling a decrease in collagen and elastin production—the building blocks of youthful skin. Whether due to aging, genetics, or environmental factors, sagging skin can affect various parts of the body, from the face and neck to the abdomen and limbs. But fear not, for there are safe and effective treatments available to restore firmness and vitality to your skin.
At East End Laser Care, we offer a range of non-invasive treatments designed to combat sagging skin and rejuvenate your appearance. Here’s how we can help:
Thermage CPT: Using radiofrequency technology, Thermage CPT stimulates collagen production, resulting in tighter, smoother skin with minimal downtime.
Exilis Ultra 360: This innovative treatment combines radiofrequency and ultrasound to target sagging skin, delivering noticeable results with no surgery required.
INFINI: By harnessing the power of microneedling and radiofrequency energy, INFINI stimulates collagen production, effectively tightening and lifting sagging skin.
Fraxel Repair Laser: Fraxel Repair Laser resurfaces the skin, promoting collagen regeneration and improving overall skin tone and texture.
Smartlipo Triplex: This advanced laser liposuction technique not only removes unwanted fat but also tightens the skin, resulting in a smoother, more contoured appearance.
Kybella: Specifically targeting submental fullness, or double chin, Kybella injections help eliminate fat and improve the appearance of sagging skin under the chin.
Ultra Femme 360: A non-invasive procedure that uses radiofrequency energy to tighten and lift the skin in the vaginal and labial areas, promoting a more youthful appearance.
Unlocking Your Ideal Body: Why SmartLipo TriPlex Trumps Diet and Exercise Alone
Embarking on a fitness journey and adopting a healthy diet are commendable steps toward a better you, but sometimes, stubborn pockets of fat refuse to budge. Enter SmartLipo TriPlex, a revolutionary solution that takes body sculpting to new heights, providing results beyond the reach of diet and exercise alone.
Why SmartLipo TriPlex?
- Targeted Precision: SmartLipo TriPlex goes beyond the generalized approach of diet and exercise. It precisely targets localized pockets of fat in areas like the abdomen, thighs, arms, and more. No more struggling with those resistant areas that seem impervious to your healthy lifestyle efforts.
- Advanced Technology: This minimally invasive procedure employs state-of-the-art TriPlex technology, utilizing three wavelengths of laser light. Unlike traditional methods, it doesn’t just remove fat – it sculpts with superior precision. The laser energy not only melts fat cells but also stimulates collagen, promoting skin tightening for a smoother, more sculpted appearance.
- Quick and Lasting Results: SmartLipo TriPlex offers visible results after just one treatment. While diet and exercise require time and consistency, this advanced method provides a quicker transformation. Witness the changes you desire without the prolonged waiting period.
- Tailored Treatments: Unlike the one-size-fits-all nature of diet and exercise, SmartLipo TriPlex treatments are personalized and tailored to address your specific needs.
- Beyond Diet and Exercise Limits: Some areas of the body are genetically predisposed to store fat, making it challenging to sculpt them through traditional means. SmartLipo TriPlex steps in where genetics might have limited the effectiveness of diet and exercise alone.
- Minimally Invasive with Less Downtime: While invasive surgical procedures often involve extended downtime, SmartLipo TriPlex is minimally invasive. Experience less pain, swelling, and bruising compared to traditional liposuction, allowing for a quicker recovery and a sooner return to your routine.
Book your personal consultation today and let SmartLipo TriPlex guide you toward the body you’ve always desired – a body that reflects your efforts, dedication, and the innovative power of advanced cosmetic technology. Your ideal body is within reach.
See you soon.
The Pre-Lipo Quiz
I hear from a lot of you who are considering body sculpting treatments that losing weight is difficult, no matter what strategies you try. Often, you’ll tell me that you exercise routinely and watch your calories but still can’t drop even five extra pounds. For those of you are experiencing a metabolism that is slowing down with age or decline in hormones, losing pounds is especially hard, most notably for women, who store more fat than men do.
If you’re thinking about body contouring, here are a few good questions to ask yourself as you decide. Count how many you can answer with a “yes.”
- Do you watch your portion size, eating small amounts more frequently?
- Do you make sure to eat breakfast?
- Do you graze instead of eating three large meals a day?
- Do you avoid eating late at night?
- Do you avoid refined grains such as white bread and crackers?
- Do you avoid hidden sugars and fats?
- Do you avoid processed foods that contain MSG, sodium nitrate and other risky food additives?
- Do you include weight training with your cardio workouts?
- Do you do resistance exercises to build muscle?
- Do you mix up the types of workouts that you do?
- Are you sleeping from 6 to 8 hours a day?
If you’ve answered “yes” to all or most of these questions, you are doing everything right. But if you still are having trouble losing weight, and you do not have an underlying medical condition that is causing the weight retention, you could be a good candidate for SmartLipo, a body sculpting procedure.
Call our office to set up a complimentary consultation. We’ll talk with you about your personal experience and offer ways in which we can help. Meantime, keep up the good work, and we’ll see you soon.
Neck News
For many of you, the neck is a body area that you’d like to improve. Because the skin is so delicate, it’s prone to changes in tautness, smoothness and color, particularly as we age.
Some of you may notice little lines or bands that run horizontally around the neck or vertical cords (platysmal bands) that become prominent. Also, when collagen and elastin decrease over time, the skin on your neck may sag and look crepey. Changes in color may include brown spots and pigmentation, particularly on the decolletage, the chest area. Or, you may see red, blotchy or wrinkly skin, most often due to excessive exposure to the sun.
At home, remember to moisturize and use SPF and retinol products, as you would on your face. If you are still not happy, come see us. We have many ways to help your neck look beautiful and more youthful. Here are a few:
Infini: This radio frequency microneedling treatment tightens the neck and jowls and reduces crepiness, too.
Thermage CPT: This tightens skin on the neck and jowls, non-invasively. It’s often called a “Thermal Lift” treatment, and it’s highly effective for many areas of the body.
Exilis Ultra 360: Another thermal treatment, Exilis Ultra 360 tightens skin on the neck and jowls and reduces fat, non-invasively.
Fraxel Repair: This laser treatment resurfaces and tightens the skin on the neck and jowls and reduces crepiness and hyperpigmentation (brown spots). It is the procedure of choice for deep lines, hard-to-erase lip lines, pronounced photodamage, sagging face and neck skin, facial wrinkles and discolorations, age-related/sun-damaged rough skin texture, acne and surgical scars.
SmartLipo Triplex: This laser procedure permanently removes fat by destroying fat cells, removing them and tightening the skin. It is effective for large areas of the body as well as smaller ones, like the neck.
Kybella: This series of injections dissolves submental fat permanently and causes some skin contraction, too. Once fat cells are destroyed, they can no longer store or accumulate fat, so re-treatment is not expected.
Call our office today to schedule a complimentary consultation. We’ll devise an individual treatment plan just for you.
See you soon.
