00:00I was not aware that I was self-conscious of my chin until it started drooping.
00:06My name is Angela and today I'm getting Kybella injections.
00:10Two years ago I experienced some trauma in my life.
00:13I lost a loved one, I moved across country, the list goes on.
00:16Experiencing all that in one month's time really took a toll on my body.
00:21And I think that now I'm on the other end of it two years later
00:24and I can see that that had a direct impact on the way that my face looks.
00:28Particularly around the chin.
00:31It almost kind of feels like for the last few years I haven't even looked in a mirror.
00:36If there's a change that I could make today that maybe is a little quick fix, I would do that.
00:43Otherwise I will literally be stuck here doing these next exercises for I don't know how long.
00:50It's not going to work.
00:52I'm going to ice you a little bit just so that I can numb you and not have you feel
00:55it.
00:55This is not normally part of the procedure.
00:57I am fortunate enough to go see the world-renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Liotta.
01:05She is a boss queen.
01:07I'm Dr. Dara Liotta and I'm a facial plastic surgeon on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
01:12Kybella kind of fills a little niche that we didn't have a good answer for before.
01:17It is an in-office, non-invasive treatment that can be done in 10 minutes using a needle and an
01:23injection.
01:23Even though it's a non-invasive procedure, the results of Kybella are permanent, which is another great thing about it.
01:30Kybella is deoxycholic acid, which is very similar to the acid that your body releases to break up fat.
01:37I don't know anybody that has ever had this treatment done.
01:41Is this real or is this hokum?
01:45Dr. Liotta! Help a girl out!
01:50It's feeling really exposed at the moment.
02:03Kybella will pop those fat cells and once the fat cells have been lysed and removed by your body,
02:10you don't grow new fat cells in the area. So whatever results you get from one treatment of Kybella,
02:15two treatments, four treatments of Kybella, it's all permanent.
02:33Each treatment is very specialized and customized to the patient.
02:39I am not afraid of needles, really.
02:47This area under here feels like it might be sensitive.
02:52Daddy, you're brave. You're not even going to feel it because you're numb.
03:19You okay? Pain or no?
03:22Awesome job.
03:23Will you be pinching all of them?
03:26Um, I can try not to.
03:28Don't screw up my Kybella tree.
03:29If you are, then I'll move.
03:49Oh, I can feel that burning.
03:50Oh, yes.
03:51Yeah.
03:52Do you, are you okay?
03:52Yeah, no, I'm fine.
03:53It'll come, it'll be better and better.
04:00Okay.
04:22Great.
04:24Ta-da!
04:25That's it?
04:26That's it.
04:27No way.
04:28That's it!
04:29Really?
04:29You did it!
04:30Cool.
04:33It's been eight weeks since I had the treatment.
04:35The treatment itself lasted just a few minutes.
04:39It's very, very, very quick.
04:40I didn't find it more painful than just like a pinch with some soreness,
04:46just like any other shot.
04:47Ooh, this color combo.
04:50When I first did it, the swelling was lasting a really, really long time.
04:53It looked like I swallowed a potato.
04:55I thought, is this going to be forever?
04:57Am I never going to see the results of this treatment?
05:00But then after six weeks, it started to, the swelling started to go down,
05:04the fluid started to go, I don't know where, wherever the fluid goes.
05:07Then I started to see a noticeable difference in my jawline,
05:10which was awesome.
05:14Oh, yes.
05:16Honey.
05:17I think that I would definitely do another treatment just to see this,
05:21if I can see a really noticeable difference in it.
05:24Oh, yeah.
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