BOCA RATON, FL--A little sag here--a line there. It's the little things we notice when we smile, especially as we get older.
Allison Demarco was no different.
"I started noticing that here, sagging cheeks and I noticied it's in my family and it's happening to me now, by lines coming from sagging cheeks and jowl area."
For Allision, getting a younger look had to be easy and painless.
"I don't want to have major surgery." Her solution? The 30 minute Acculift.
"It's a laser treatment and removing some of the heaviness away from the areas we mentioned and putting that material where we're missing fat."
Plastic Surgeon Dr. Daniel Man of Boca Raton says the key to this latest lunch time lift is new laser technology.
"That's what happens when we age, we change our volume, we lose volume in the cheek, we lose volume and gain in the area of the nasal, jowls and neck."
"It's a very thin fiber from the top to bottom and it takes the fullness from that area and it's done."
A numbing cream and local anesthesia is applied. "I'm delivering juice, which is energy to the laser." The thin fiber and it's laser power, go to work.
"I'm emulsifying the fat and causing skin tightening."
The acculift procedure is known as the '30 minute procedure' because you are in and out of the chair in under an hour and you notice results before you ever leave the chair.
"You see that the fullness went away and the neck looks better on right side and the cheek and temple look better compared to the left side.."
Allison, too, noticed the results--even while the procedure was underway.
"I can see a definite difference."
"I'm very happy its actually more than i expected."
"He had taken fat from here and my jaw line is lighter and more like it was 10-15 years ago." That's exactly the result the doctor was looking for.
"The heaviness from this area is gone..including neck area, the emptyness that was missing in the chest and lips is gone now."
It's a look Allison can live with for a long time-especially when friends comment. "Your face is glowing you look young."
Dr. Man says the Acculift results can last up to 10 years. It's cost: about $4500 dollars.
