Renuvion Skin Tightening in Lehi, Utah
Discover advanced skin tightening solutions in Lehi, Utah, with Renuvion. This innovative treatment provides remarkable improvements for a smoother, more youthful appearance by addressing skin laxity. Achieve significant revitalization and contouring with our specialized Renuvion services, designed to deliver impressive results.
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MD Consult
- Ideal for:
- Patients wanting the best of the best
- Complicated, advanced, or non-responsive cases
- Patients who simply prefer a doctor
- CO2 resurfacing, liposuction, surgical alternatives
- Not Ideal for
- Weight loss injections, derm clean ups, facials
Cosmetic Consults
- 30 minute (double length) visit
- Baseline "before" photos
- Advanced Trueskin Age® analysis
- Goal setting & history intake
- Evaluation and treatment plan
- Pricing & education
Nurse Consult
- Ideal for:
- Patients who prioritize price
- Weight loss injections, derm clean ups, facials
- Accessibility
- Not Ideal for:
- Patients who simply prefer a doctor
- CO2 resurfacing, liposuction, surgical alternatives
Renuvion: How it works
Renuvion common Treatment Areas
Renuvion can be done on nearly any area of the body, but these are the most common areas chosen by patients.
liposuction paired with Renuvion
Renuvion is a remarkable standalone solution for mild to moderate skin laxity, offering impressive tightening for those not requiring fat reduction. However, its true synergy often shines brightest when combined with liposuction, creating a comprehensive body sculpting approach that delivers superior results.
Why the Combination Makes Sense
When fat is removed via liposuction, the skin that once contained that volume can sometimes be left loose or redundant, particularly in areas with reduced elasticity or after significant fat removal. This can diminish the sculpted outcome of liposuction, leaving patients with a less defined contour than desired. This is where Renuvion becomes an invaluable partner.
- Complementary Goals: Liposuction focuses on precisely removing unwanted fat deposits, while Renuvion specifically addresses skin laxity by causing immediate tissue contraction and stimulating new collagen production. Together, they create a harmonious result, effectively slimming and tightening in a single procedure.
- Optimized Recovery: Combining Renuvion with liposuction means undergoing a single recovery period for both procedures. Since liposuction already involves a healing phase, adding Renuvion at the same time is highly efficient. You're already in recovery, so integrating the skin tightening minimizes additional downtime, allowing you to achieve a more complete transformation without extending your recuperation.
- Streamlined Technique: From a procedural standpoint, integrating Renuvion with liposuction is highly logical. The Renuvion probe can often be inserted through the same small incisions used for liposuction, meaning no additional entry points or scarring. This streamlined technique enhances patient comfort and simplifies the overall process.
- Advantageous Pricing: Opting for Renuvion in conjunction with liposuction often presents a more cost-effective solution than undergoing two separate procedures. By combining the treatments, you save on anesthesia fees, facility costs, and the overall time commitment, making your body sculpting journey more accessible and efficient.
Whether you're seeking to address skin laxity alone or aiming for a more dramatic body transformation that includes fat removal, Renuvion offers flexible and powerful solutions. Discussing your goals with our experts will help determine if Renuvion on its own or in combination with liposuction is the ideal path for your unique needs.
Renuvion Treatment targets
Renuvion Pricing & Aftercare
Choosing a date:
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Decide on time of year to have treatment. Considerations below.
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3-4 days off from work required. Ensure you have taken adequate time off from work or other commitments. You will be able to move around and be active during this time but will be very sore. Some physical laborers choose to take 7-10 days off work.
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You will need an escort to and from your appointment.
Scheduling:
- Contact office at 385-273-3376 and request to speak with the COSMETIC NURSE
- Provide a date range you are hoping for (see considerations above)
- The cosmetic nurse will schedule you.
Payment:
- $500 is required to book an appointment
- The remaining balance is due at the Pre-Op Visit
Visit Layout:
- Pre-op visit. 30 minute visit. Typically 2 weeks (12-18 days) before treatment date.
- Treatment Day. 4 hour scheduled slot.
- Post-Op Visit. 30 minute visit. Typically 6 weeks after treatment day.
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Baseline photos will be taken. Please come dressed with standard bra and underwear underneath.
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Medications will be prescribed.
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We review treatment expectations, prep, and aftercare.
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Measurements for compression garments will be taken.
1-2 weeks before treatment:
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Arrange escort: This person will be assuming responsibility for you and cannot be a bus, taxi, or uber/lyft. It’s also helpful to have someone stay with you and assist you for the first night if possible.
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Fill prescriptions: Prescriptions will be given at pre-op visit. Fill these before treatment day. • Antibiotic (example: Keflex) • Sedative (example: Valium) • antinausia (example: Zofran) • Pain management (example: Hydrocodone/acetaminophen)
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Also purchase a package of absorbent pads, non-prescription. (example: Kotex pads)
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Avoid any alcoholic beverages 2-4 days leading up to the procedure.
Day Before treatment:
- Start taking your antibiotic as instructed by your physician.
- Prepare home: older sheets, pillowcases, and bedding on bed.
The morning of treatment:
- Eat a light meal.
- Wear a button-up shirt so you can put a gown on for the procedure and not have to pull a shirt over your head.
- If possible, wear a dark, used button-up that you are okay possibly getting stains on.
2 hours before treatment:
- Take 1 of your sedative medication as directed by your physician.
- Bring all medications with you to your procedure.
- Bring a few old but clean towels for your car ride home from the treatment, or consider a shower curtain for the car seat.
- You will require a driver to take you home from the office.
- Drape clean, old towels or rags on your car seat to avoid any drainage or staining.
- Resume your usual diet upon returning home.
- Drink adequate amounts of fluids to prevent dehydration.
- Avoid any alcoholic beverages for the first 48-72 hours following procedure.
- Continue oral antibiotic until prescription is finished. Take with food.
- Take antinausia and pain medications as directed by physician. with a blade for 3 weeks.
- An electric shaver may be used after 2 weeks.
- Rest is recommended immediately after surgery. Avoid any driving, operating machinery, or important personal decisions within first 24 hours.
- Later in the day you may take a short walk, if desired.
- Feeling faint is not uncommon in the days following Renuvion. Take care to prevent fainting by removing compression garments slowly, one at a time, resist standing up quickly, and consider having help nearby while showering or using the bathroom during the first 24 hours after your procedure.
- You may carefully resume exercise and vigorous physical activity 2-4 days after surgery. It is suggested you start at 25% of your normal workload then increase as tolerated.
- You may return to a desk job in 2-3 days following procedure, although one must expect to be sore and easily fatigued for several days.
- You will have swelling after Renuvion.
- Following Renuvion, postoperative garments (two sets of garments + one elastic binder) are worn.
- We will provide the compression garments for your procedure.
- Initial wrapping and compression are done after your procedure should be worn and not taken off until the following morning.
- The following morning, remove compression garments and wash them. You may feel lightheaded or dizzy the first time removing garments. Lie down if this occurs. It may help to remove binder and wait 10 minutes prior to removing second garment. While garments are washing take a shower daily (below).
- You will wear both compression garments until all drainage has stopped + an additional 24 hours of no drainage.
- After 24 hours of no drainage, STOP wearing the outmost garment or binder. You may continue wearing the first garment but this is only for your comfort, you may continue to wear it as long as you would like.
- Temporary firmness and lumpiness is not uncommon in the weeks after Renuvion. If it does occur, it is typically noticed 1-2 weeks after surgery and becomes most prominent and tender 2-4 weeks after surgery. Continued light compression can help alleviate the discomfort when this happens. Time will also improve these symptoms.
Post-operative draining
- Expect a large amount of blood-tinged anesthetic solution to drain from the small incisions during the first 24-48 hours following the procedure.
- For the first 24-36 hours, bulky superabsorbent dressings should be worn under the compression garments and directly over the incision sites.
- Do not cover draining sites with Band-Aids.
- Apply new absorbent pads every time you shower, 1-2x daily.
- Only incisions that have stopped draining for more than 24 hours should be covered with Vaseline and a bandage
Wound care & bathing:
- Wait 48 hours before first shower.
- Keep incision sites clean, shower 1-2x daily.
- First, wash hands, then wash incisions gently with soap and water. Pat dry with a towel.
- Avoid: icing or heating of area, hydrogen peroxide or plastic Band-Aids to incision sites, soaking in a bath, Jacuzzi, or swimming pool for 7 days following procedure.
- Take your prescribed pain medication or over-the-counter Tylenol every 4 hours as needed. Avoid any ibuprofen or asprin.
Similar treatments on the market
Ultherapy
(Focused Ultrasound)
Ultherapy uses highly focused ultrasound energy to generate heat at precise depths beneath the skin's surface, stimulating collagen production over time. It's an entirely non-invasive treatment.
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How Renuvion Compares
While both aim for collagen stimulation, Renuvion utilizes plasma energy delivered subdermally (under the skin) through tiny incisions. This allows for more immediate and more dramatic contraction and tightening, as it directly heats and contracts the underlying fibrous septae and collagen. Ultherapy works on deeper foundational layers, while Renuvion offers both deep and superficial skin tightening. Renuvion also typically shows results faster and can address textural issues in addition to laxity.
We think Renuvion works much better than Ultherapy.
Morpheus8
(RF Microneedling)
This treatment combines microneedling with radiofrequency energy. Tiny needles create controlled micro-injuries in the skin, while RF energy is delivered through the needles into the dermis, stimulating collagen and elastin production. This treatment has longer needles with better application of energy than most "RF microneedling devices"
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How Renuvion Compares
RF microneedling focuses on remodeling the deeper dermis and creating new elastin, as well as improving skin texture on the surface. Renuvion, while also stimulating collagen, focuses more on significant tissue contraction by treating the deep plane and fibrous septae with its plasma energy. Renuvion can achieve more profound contraction and is often preferred for more significant skin laxity, whereas RF microneedling excels at textural improvements and mild to moderate tightening. The recovery for Renuvion can be slightly more involved than superficial RF microneedling due to its deeper, more aggressive action.
We think Renuvion works better than Morpheus8.
Laser Resurfacing
(Multiple Types)
Lasers use focused light energy to remove outer layers of damaged skin (ablative lasers) or heat deeper layers to stimulate collagen without damaging the surface (non-ablative/fractional lasers). Primarily used for surface texture, wrinkles, and pigmentation. The skin tightening is enough to improve wrinkles and fine lines but not enough to improve any laxity or skin "looseness"
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How Renuvion Compares
While some lasers can provide mild tightening, their primary mechanism is skin resurfacing and improving texture, tone, and fine lines. Renuvion's primary strength is significant skin tightening through collagen contraction. Renuvion uses cold helium plasma for precision and significantly more skin tightening.
Renuvion's skin tightening is in a different league than laser resurfacing.
Thermage
(Radiofrequency - RF)
Thermage uses bulk heating with monopolar radiofrequency energy to heat the deeper layers of the skin, promoting collagen remodeling and tightening. It is a non-invasive, external treatment.
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How Renuvion Compares
Renuvion also uses RF energy but combines it with helium gas to create a "cold plasma" stream. This allows for much more precise and intense heating within the tissue while simultaneously cooling the surface, leading to greater collagen contraction and a more significant tightening effect than traditional external RF devices like Thermage. Renuvion is minimally invasive (subdermal delivery), which allows for deeper and more uniform heating than external RF.
We think Renuvion works much better than Thermage.
Prfound
(RF Microneedling)
This treatment works in a similar way to Morpheus8 with the difference being the number of needles and the application of energy. Profound's needle tips are alternating polarities to provide a more precise application of RF energy in our opinion.
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How Renuvion Compares
RF microneedling focuses on remodeling the deeper dermis and creating new elastin, as well as improving skin texture on the surface. Renuvion, while also stimulating collagen, focuses more on significant tissue contraction by treating the deep plane and fibrous septae with its plasma energy. Renuvion can achieve more profound contraction and is often preferred for more significant skin laxity, whereas RF microneedling excels at textural improvements and mild to moderate tightening. The recovery for Renuvion can be slightly more involved than superficial RF microneedling due to its deeper, more aggressive action.
We think Renuvion works better than Profound
Thread Lifts
(PDO Threads)
Absorbable sutures (threads) are inserted under the skin with needles to physically lift and reposition sagging tissue. They also stimulate some collagen production as they dissolve.
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How Renuvion Compares
Thread lifts provide an immediate mechanical lift by physically pulling the skin. While they offer some collagen stimulation, the primary effect is the lift from the threads. Renuvion, conversely, works by contracting the skin itself through internal heating and collagen stimulation, leading to organic and lasting tightening from within, rather than relying on external sutures for support. Renuvion can achieve more comprehensive and potentially longer-lasting tightening, especially for moderate laxity, compared to the more subtle and temporary effects of thread lifts.
Renuvion's skin tightening is in a different league than thread lifts.
FaceLifts & body lifts
(Surgical Excisional Lifts)
A surgical facelift or body lift involves excising excess skin and repositioning underlying tissues and muscles to achieve a dramatic, long-lasting lift and tightening.
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How Renuvion Compares
The key difference is invasiveness. Surgical lifts are highly invasive procedures requiring significant incisions, general anesthesia, and longer recovery times, but they can address severe skin laxity and excess skin removal that Renuvion cannot. Renuvion is a minimally invasive procedure, involving only tiny entry points. It offers significant tightening without excising skin, making it ideal for mild to moderate laxity or as an adjunct to liposuction. Renuvion provides a natural-looking result with less downtime and risk compared to traditional surgery, though it cannot replace surgery for very advanced cases of skin redundancy.
Surgical lifts are the only item on this list that offers better results than Renuvion.
Why choose us for your Renuvion treatment
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Pioneering Expertise in Utah:
Dr. David Smart was the very first physician in Utah to perform a Renuvion treatment back at the University of Utah, embracing this advanced technology from its earliest stages and continuously utilizing it since its inception.
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Unrivaled Experience
With more Renuvion treatments performed in Utah than any other doctor, Dr. Smart possesses an unmatched depth of practical experience, ensuring highly skilled and precise application of the technology.
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National Recognition
Dr. Smart frequently leverages Renuvion in his groundbreaking work treating lipedema at the renowned Roxbury Institute, a testament to his innovative approach and leadership in complex body sculpting cases that have garnered national attention.
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Advancing the Science
Our dedication to cutting-edge techniques is evident in Dr. Smart's active role in clinical research, including receiving funding for the 2021 Renuvion/J-Plasma clinical study on upper arm tightening and contouring.
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Comprehensive Approach
You benefit from a holistic body sculpting philosophy rooted in unparalleled experience and a deep understanding of the underlying science, ensuring a tailored treatment plan designed for optimal, natural-looking results.
Renuvion Scheduling options
Cosmetic Consults
For new patients or existing medical patients. To discuss Renuvion and other cosmetic topics.
Renuvion FAQ
How long do Renuvion results typically last?
Permanent, but aging continues.
Renuvion delivers long-lasting results, with many patients enjoying their improved skin tightness for several years. While Renuvion significantly contracts tissue and stimulates new collagen, the natural aging process will continue. Maintaining a stable weight, healthy lifestyle, and good sun protection can help prolong your results.
