Dr. Kerr's "Healthy Advice" can be seen in the Boise Idaho Statesman on Thursdays.

Question: 

“I am a pretty small person, 5'1", 120 lbs, size 2 jeans, and I'm generally pretty happy with my body.  One of my only complaints is my fat knees!  I have fat deposits on the insides of my knees that make my legs incredibly unsightly! I've looked into how to help reduce this deposit, but everything that I've found has said, ‘If you have fat knees, you have fat everywhere.’  Since this isn't the case, how can I shrink my chubby knees?” Jessica

It sounds like diet and exercise haven’t been enough to help you eliminate the fat around your knees. Smartlipo (Smart Lipo) laser liposuction can help. The below pictured Boise woman came to me with extra fat around her knees. After removing the fat using Smartlipo (Smart Lipo) laser liposuction, her knees now match the rest of her trim body.

Answer: 

Smart Lipo uses a laser to melt the fat and the fat is suctioned out, the entire procedure lasts about an hour. I used awake anesthesia and the patient was able to get up from the procedure and walk out of the office with no problem.   Recovery time was minimal and she was thrilled with the results; I’m sure you will be too, Jessica. Come in for a free consultation.  -- Dr. Kerr

Can I afford Liposuction?

This is probably the FIRST question we receive from most liposculpture and weight loss patients. So, we decided what a perfect topic to address in our blog!

Liposuction or any weight loss service is usually an elective cosmetic procedure, which means it is not generally covered by insurance policies. Luckily, at Silk Touch Med Spa, we provide our patients with various payment options that make it affordable for almost anybody.

Liposuction is a wonderful solution for both men and women who have areas of fat on their body that are resistant to diet and exercise.

How to Determine How Much It is Going to Cost

Everyone’s body is different, and price does vary from person to person depending on the type of results they want, the area’s that need done, etc..

The best way to determine how you are going to finance your liposuction procedure is to schedule an initial consultation. Consultations are free, and non-obligatory. At Silk Touch, we want you to completely know all costs and restrictions with a procedure before committing in anyway.

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During the initial consultation, we go over unanswered questions, expectations, and desired results with our patients. We also review the different financing options available to them for their liposuction or body contouring procedure (such as Venus Freeze or Vaser Shape).

Whether you pay for it all at once, or use one of our financing programs to break the cost down over a series of months or over a year – we have ways to make it affordable for everyone. 

We recently have added a new finance program that is perfect for people with bad credit, or who are not looking to take out another credit account. This payment program works directly with your bank and is often very affordable for any candidate. 

Specials

We often run monthly specials on our Smartlipo and BodySculpting Procedures. These specials either give you and added service for purchasing, or discount the procedure to help make it even more afforable. Often these speicals combined with financing programs make it it afforable for most.

September Lipo Special: $500 OFF + 2 Free Venus Freeze Treatments

 Be wary of places offering unbelievably low prices for liposuction or body procedures (such as Groupon and Living Social), as it may reflect on the quality of liposuction you receive and the experience of the technician. We see tons of patients each year who come to us with horror stories from discount lipo deals. Do your research and try not to be swayed by lowball pricing. You will thank yourself later!

In the past 15 years, the muffin top went from most-loved breakfast part, to the most-maligned body part. We don’t know how that happened, but we do know this: Most people want it gone, and classic crunches aren’t working.

If you’ve exhausted your self with countless workouts that just aren’t giving you the results you want. We have several body contouring services at Silk Touch that will help you say goodbye to unwanted love handles for good! 

Smartlipo 

For areas like the stomach and “muffin top”s that aren’t responding to workouts, Smartlipo liposuction may be an excellent choice.  Stubborn belly, flank, inner thigh, upper back, and arm fat may hang on long after you've made smart choices about nutrition and movement.  We've had great success with a number of folks that simply wanted to focus on remaining trouble spots after adopting sustainable lifestyle changes.  Check out our before and after photos below to see for yourself.

At Silk Touch Med, we do everything we can to make this simple and easy.  We offer free, no pressure and no obligation consultations, convenient scheduling options, and a team dedicated to helping you meet your goals.  Our technique allows you to have Smartlipo liposuction on your areas of concern, recover in the comfort of your own home, and get back to most of your regular activities, including work, in just a few days.

 In the past few years, Dr. Kerr has become an expert in his field at body sculpting, and is now internationally recognized for his technique in sculpting the body – especially knees, ankles, and love handles.

Vaser Shape 

Vaser Shape is a great alternative to Smartlipo for people who have a little bit of fat they would like to lose, and want to avoid having any down time. Vaser Shape is administered in 6-8 in-office sessions, and most clients start to see results after the first few treatments.

This painless treatment takes about an hour and feels like a hot stone massage. In fact, most of our clients fall asleep during the procedure it is so comfortable.

Unlike Smartlipo, Vaser Shape results are not instant – and it will take several treatments to achieve your desired results. However, for those who want to avoid having any type of surgical procedure (or have very little fat to lose) – Vaser Shape is a great alternative.

Scheudle a Consultation 

If you are interested in learning more about how Smartlipo or Vaser Shape can help you with your body transformation, please schedule a no-obligation consultation. Or contact us with any questions. 

There you are standing in your closet getting ready to liberate your winter clothes from their seasonal resting place - scarves, sweaters, and skinny jeans… oh my! You look forward to donning your form-fitting little black dress that is always a hit at holiday parties. Jubilantly, you discard you’re summer tank-top in a pile on the floor in favor of your hot momma eye-catching dress. You turn to admire yourself in the mirror, but instead of the gleeful greeting of a silhouette, you gasp, “back boobs!”

Where smooth lines once were, you find layers of fat protruding from under your bra line. The back bra-roll consists of the area just under your shoulder blade and down toward your hip area. It can also be above the shoulder blade and extend into your armpit – and yours are extending in full force! You can’t face the holiday party season like this! What to do?

Dr. Brian Kerr can improve the way you look both in and out of your favorite winter frocks and dramatically reduce the unsightly “bra bulges.”

The latest laser liposuction techniques such as Smartlipo or Ultrasound technology like VASER liposuction can remove your bra bulge fat in a matter of minutes, zapping your winter ‘back boob-blues,’ leaving you feeling and looking fabulous!

Dr. Kerr uses awake anesthesia that helps to keep the patient comfortable and ensures minimal bruising while he removes fat from the bra area. The procedure generally takes an hour or two, with clients walking out of Silk Touch Med Spa of Boise in just a few short minutes after the procedure. 

Results usually take just a couple of weeks, but swelling and recovery varies by individual, with most clients reaching desired results within a month with improvement up to one year. A smoother, flatter bra line can create a shapelier, feminine figure, ensuring your little black dress is what leaves people talking, not your bra bulge.  

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I WANT TO GET RID OF MY LOVE HANDLES!!

Love handles: the undesirable fat bulging over the sides of countless waistlines. Love handles remain a highly targeted area when it comes to fat reduction. For many people, these areas of excess fat are anything but loved.

Located around a person's midsection, love handles, or the bulges of fat at the side of waist, cover the oblique muscles and make the midsection appear larger. Generally, love handles increase in size as we get older. As our food intake increases and activity decreases, excess fat makes love handles a permanent home. Also, individuals with higher body fat percentages typically have more pronounced love handles than individuals with lower fat percentages.

In order to shrink your love handles, you'd need to reduce your body fat percentage. To do this, consume fewer calories through a healthy diet and increase cardio and resistance training. Building energy with nutrition, burning fat and building muscle are the only surefire ways to significantly decrease the waistline bulge. Diet and excercise is one of the best (and most cost effective) tools for getting rid of love handles But sadly, the exercise approach is not always effective for everybody – as it takes special targeted area work outs to start to tone this area. 

So what can you do to get rid of them when diet and exercise don’t seem to do the trick?

In the past, traditional liposuction used to be the only option. But not everyone is a candidate for this invasive surgery and most people tend to want quick results with little downtime. At Silk Touch, we now have a treatment that work wonders on eliminating love handles.

Non-invasive Liposculpture with Smartlipo & Vaser Lipo

Sometimes a combination of Smartlipo and Vaser Lipo is the best treatment plan for those looking to lose not only love handles, but other areas of fat on the abdomen, back, etc.  Liposculpture can usually be done in 1 session, and is most cost effective if you are looking to sculpt several areas of the body or you want to lose a substainal amount of weight at once.

 Read more about Smartlipo/Vaser Procedures and Technology

If you want more information on VASER or Liposculpture, or have questions on which procedure would most benefit you, we welcome you to come visit us for a FREE consultation with our patient care coordinator, Donna. She is more than willing to answer any questions and come up with the best treatment plan that is right for you, and right for your budget.

If you are like me, it seems like no matter how hard I try and no matter what exercises I do, my inner thighs just don’t change. Inner thighs are the hardest to slim down through diet and exercise alone. There are over 900,000 Internet hits for thigh exercises for women, proving that I am not alone in my goal for sexy legs. If like me, you have tried everything….let me introduce you to your new best friend – body sculpting with a combination of Smartlipo & Vaser.

Fat that accumulates on the thighs and hip area are some of the hardest to target. Genetics and gender are strong components in thigh fat, particularly the inner thighs. As we age, we burn fewer calories and the fat settling in our thighs is thicker, which can lead to a less-defined figure. Body Sculpting with Smartlipo and Vaser technologies can make thighs look leaner, and it may even make your butt look better too, due to a more proportionate result. Inner thigh body sculpting can significantly improve the silhouette of the thigh and reduce the rubbing together of the inner thighs.

No matter what our body type is, all of us have difficulties trying to slim and lose weight in our thighs. Hourglass, apple, pear/spoon/bell, rectangle or straight, we could all use a little help trimming our thighs.

The way that Body Sculpting liposuction works on our thighs is the same as anywhere on our bodies. Smartlipo or laser lipo consists of a paperclip thin laser fiber which is inserted into a very tiny incision. The fat is melted by the laser and then is sucked out. Vaser uses vibration to separate the fat cells.  Dr. Kerr uses this technology when fat transfer is needed for  breast  or butt since the fat cells are left. The incision is made in the groin or hip area and tightens the skin. Dr. Kerr is known for his amazing body sculpting techniques, as demonstrated in the picture above.

Smartlipo/Vaser is a gentle procedure that can be done in just a few hours depending on the number of areas to be treated. There is minimal pain, a quick recovery time and visible results almost immediately. Smartlipo has proven to be one of the safest cosmetic procedures.

 Benefits of Smartlipo/ Vaser body sculpting vs. traditional liposuction:

• Promotes tissue tightening through tissue coagulation

• Performed under local anesthesia

• Less bleeding and trauma

• Quicker recovery

• Dramatic results

Another benefit of Smartlipo/Vaser is that in most cases, more than one area can be treated at a tine. The picture shown above show’s results from Dr. Brian Kerr of Silk Touch Med Spa Laser & Lipo of Boise using a combination of Smartlipo and/or Vaser liposuction on the thighs, abdomen and love handles, leaving the areas a lot more proportionate to one antoher.

If you are interested in learning how Dr. Brian Kerr can help you achieve the results you deserve. give us a call at 208-939-3110 to schedule you appointment or fill out our form by visitng the link below and one of our staff members will contact you.

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When you wave goodbye, do your underarms wave back? Though more common in older adults, wobbly underarms do not discriminate. And sadly, they often cause people to avoid sleeveless shirts, tank tops and the like because of the embarrassment. Even some of the most fit, in-shape people are plagued with what I like to call "wiggly wings."

If you've met your ends meet of upper body workouts trying to fix this problem, we suggest looking into non-invasive cosmetic treatments like SmartLipo and Vaser which can reduce the appearance of your arm flab for good!

The latest laser liposuction techniques such as Smartlipo or Ultrasound technology like VASER liposuction can remove arm fat in a matter of minutes, leaving you with smaller, shapely arms that you will be proud to show off with sleeveless shirts.

The combination of the Smartlipo technology and Vaser Liposuction technology is without comparison.  We noticed this right away. We get much better results than with just Smartlipo alone. Smartlipo does a good job of tightening the skin, but the combination of the two sets a new standard. 

Benefits of liposuction:

• Quick procedure taking less than an hour

• Minimal scarring

• Minimal Downtime

• Results can be immediate. 

• Tightening can continue to occur for several months afterward.

Procedure time: 45-60 minutes

Recovery: Minimal. Arm liposuction feels like a tough arm workout for the next week following the procedure. You will be asked to wear a compression garment for 2 weeks.  Swelling and bruising will vary but for most it is minimal. The small surgical incisions are concealed nicely at the underarm and the elbow to allow for the smoothest most aesthetic results.

If you are considering liposuction of any kind, it is important to feel secure and comfortable with the Doctor that performs your treatment. Dr.Kerr is an expert in Smarlipo and Vaser procedures.

Here's what some of our patients have to say. 

“I’ve had excessive hanging underarm fat my entire adult life, becoming more pronounced recently. Although being very hot-blooded, I would never wear sleeveless tops because of my arms, which added to my discomfort during the summer. I made the decision to try Smartlipo with Dr. Kerr. The whole process has been very pleasant. His entire staff works to make your experience a good one. My results at only 2 months post-procedure are better than I dared dream. I can now wear sleeveless tops without embarrassment and enjoy my summer instead of dreading it. Thank you, Dr. Kerr. You’re amazing!”

“To anyone considering SmartLipo – go see Dr. Kerr, he is truly an artist. I could not lose the menopausal weight around my middle and did a lot of research on this procedure. Dr Kerr and his staff are very professional and caring, and tell you what to expect before, during and after the procedure. I am very happy with the results already, after only 2 weeks, and I know it will continue to get even better. Thank you Dr. Kerr and staff, you have made such a wonderful change in my life!”

View more testimonials here.

If you are interested in learning more on how SmartLipo and Vaser can help you wave goodbye to your unwanted underarm fat, we would be happy to have you come in for a free consultation with our staff and Dr.Kerr. Just give us a call at 208-939-3110! 

If you are considering purchase Smartlipo, don't miss out on this month's great special - purchase Smartlipo and receive free Botox for an entire year! Click here for more specials. 

You can also contact us by clicking the link below. 

This week we want to share an article with you from DailyBeauty.com. The author, Shellie Terry Benson, did a wonderful job of explaining how to keep your knees looking great and youthful. 

Silk Touch Med Spa offers Smartlipo technologies that can change the look of your knees dramatically. Check out our previous blog post on knee liposuction to learn more. 

The Key to Beautiful Knees

Posted Monday, March 12, 2012 by Shellie Terry Benson, Editor

They’re often forgotten about, your lowly knees, until you slip on the first skirt of the spring or a pair of shorts in the summer. Dry skin may make them look ashy, while age or weight loss may make them look saggy. And though they may seem difficult to fix, your knees can look pretty again. (Remember when Demi Moore shocked the world with her new knees?) Here are a few ways to get your knees ready for the warmer weather:

Exfoliate: The skin on your knees is thicker than other areas to offer extra protection to your joints (the same is true of your elbows), so dryness can accumulate there. Choose an exfoliator that’s appropriate for your skin type (go for a more gentle formula if you have sensitive skin). Massage it into your skin using a circular motion and rinse. Exfoliate to remove the dry, dead skin cells twice a week, but no more than that, or you may be sloughing healthy skin away.

Moisturize: Every day, use a deeply hydrating moisturizer on your knees to lock in moisture. You may even want to use a body oil first (Avene Body Oil ($20) makes a wonderful one for very dry, sensitive skin). For super dry skin, moisturize twice a day.

Banish fat: Liposuction can help sculpt better-looking knees by removing unnecessary fat. The incision can be strategically placed at the knee or at the groin if you also want your thighs treated. But keep in mind, surgeries that are further away from the heart take longer to heal.

Try some light: Non-invasive cellulite and skin-tightening treatments such as radio-frequency energy or infra-red light, paired with massaging devices may improve slightly sagging skin around the knees.

Smooth the skin: Speculation was that Demi Moore had a knee lift to remove the sagging skin around her knees. The treatment is tricky because to surgically remove the skin, a scar will eventually develop. Ask your plastic surgeon for before-and-after photos of other cases so you’re well aware of what results may be.

See the difference for yourself - here are some before and after photos of Silk Touch clients who have received this treatment:

Have you tried everything you can to lose weight – but just can’t seem to lose that oh so pesky “double chin" or extra neck waddle? If so, your not alone. Many men and women face the challenge of wanting to slim down their face and lose that droopy neck, but just can’t or don’t know how. Some people hide it with scarves and turtle necks (which you wouldn’t want to wear year round) , while others go with traditional liposuction which can takes weeks of down time to recover. Are you tired of hiding it, but not willing to pay the cost (both financially and time wise) of traditional liposuction?

By using technologies such as SmartLipo and VASER, we can help you can say goodbye to neck weight forever and hello to new confidence! 

The face and neck are usually the first features we notice when we meet someone new, so even the littlest improvements in this area can create a dramatic change. A firm, trim neck gives the face a more youthful look and sometimes just having this procedure done provides an incentive and the confidence you need to make healthier lifestyle choices, therefore benefiting you even more in the long run.

At Silk Touch Med Spa, we use the latest technologies to bring you the best results with the least recovery time. VASER, combined with SmartLipo liposuction allows Dr.Brian Kerr to work with such precision that he can shape delicate areas, such as the chin and neck.  Using this new technology allows the nerves and blood vessels to go largely undisturbed, which causes patients to report minimal pain and bruising – less recovery time!

The results of this procedure are fantastic – take a look for yourself!

The most common concerns with this procedure have to do with the recovery time. “Will I have to have my face wrapped up for weeks?” “How long do I have to take off work?” “Will I need to get someone to watch my kids?”

Recovery time for this procedure is minimal, but is different for each patient. Patients find themselves back to work 1-3 days after the procedure. Usually, an elastic compression headband is worn during the first 18 to 36 hours after surgery. After that, the headband is used at night while you sleep to assist in the healing process. In the early years of liposuction, surgeons required patients to wear compression garments from 2-6 weeks! This is just one of the many benefits of using SmartLipo and VASER technologies.

Other benefits include:

• Gently targets trouble spots where fat collects and skin becomes lax

• Minimally invasive alternative to surgery

• No general anesthetic needed

   

Visit our testimonials page to read stories on past patients success.

If you are interested in or have questions on Neck Liposuction, schedule a free consultation today and we can work to asnwer any questions you have.

 Want knees like these?

 Boise knee liposuction photos by Dr. Brian Kerr

This Boise woman came to me with extra fat around her knees. After removing the fat using Smartlipo (Smart Lipo) laser liposuction, her knees look like those of a younger woman. Smart Lipo uses a laser to melt the fat and the fat is suctioned out.  This procedure took about an hour to perform. Dr. Kerr used awake anesthesia and the patient was able to get up from the procedure and walk out of the office with no problem.    Recovery time was minimal and she was thrilled with the results.  -- Dr. Kerr



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