While everyone’s talking about Botox, these treatments are quietly changing how people feel about their bodies.
If you follow aesthetics at all on social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking the entire industry consists of lip filler, Botox, and the occasional laser facial. Those treatments get the content. They get the before-and-afters. They get the dedicated hashtags and the “soft launch” selfies. And for good reason — we’re an Allergan Diamond provider, which puts us in the top three percent of aesthetic practices in the country for Botox and filler. We know those treatments well.
But there’s a whole category of treatments sitting quietly on our menu that most people have never heard of, never thought to ask about, and would absolutely want if they knew they existed. These aren’t fringe or experimental. They’re established, effective, and in many cases producing results that no amount of skincare or effort in the gym can replicate.
Here’s what you’ve been missing.
Kybella: The Double Chin Treatment That Actually Works
The submental area — that’s the clinical term for the space under your chin — is one of the most common aesthetic concerns we hear about and one of the least discussed publicly, mostly because people feel self-conscious even bringing it up. Fullness under the chin, the soft tissue that shows up in photos or in certain lighting, affects a significant portion of adults regardless of their overall body weight, and it has almost nothing to do with fitness level or diet for many people. It’s often genetic, it’s often hormonal, and it’s genuinely resistant to conventional methods of change.
Kybella is the only FDA-approved injectable specifically designed to address it. The active ingredient is synthetic deoxycholic acid, a molecule that occurs naturally in the body and aids in the breakdown and absorption of dietary fat. When injected into the submental fat, it destroys the fat cell membrane. Those cells can no longer store fat and are gradually processed and eliminated by the body. The result is a visible, lasting reduction in fullness under the chin.
The treatment is done in a series of sessions spaced about a month apart, with most people seeing meaningful results after two to four treatments. There is swelling and some tenderness in the days following each session — this is normal and is part of the process — but downtime from daily activities is minimal.
What makes Kybella worth knowing about is the permanence. The fat cells that are destroyed do not regenerate. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Modest weight fluctuations don’t bring the fullness back, because the cells that would hold that fat no longer exist. For people who have been self-conscious about this area for years, sometimes decades, that kind of permanent change is significant.
RF Skin Tightening: The Treatment That Works Where Skincare Can’t
Radiofrequency skin tightening is one of the most underappreciated technologies in aesthetic medicine, and the gap between how well it works and how little attention it gets is striking.
RF energy works by delivering controlled heat into the deeper layers of the skin, specifically the dermis and the tissue beneath it, without disrupting the surface. That heat does two things: it causes an immediate contraction of existing collagen fibers, producing a tightening effect you can see relatively quickly, and it stimulates the production of new collagen over the following weeks and months.
The result is skin that looks and feels firmer, tighter, and more lifted over time. It’s particularly effective on areas that tend to lose laxity with age: the lower face and jawline, the neck, the abdomen, and the inner arms and thighs. These are also, not coincidentally, the areas where people most often feel that their skin isn’t keeping pace with the rest of how they look and feel.
RF is non-ablative, meaning it doesn’t remove or disrupt the surface of the skin. There’s no peeling, no significant redness, and no meaningful downtime. Most people experience some warmth and mild flushing during and immediately after the treatment, and that’s typically it.
It’s also worth understanding what RF is not. It’s not a surgical lift and it won’t replicate the results of one. What it does is produce real, measurable improvement in skin firmness and laxity — the kind of improvement that makes clothing fit differently, that makes the jawline look more defined in photos, and that puts off more significant interventions for people who aren’t ready for or interested in surgery. Done consistently over time, it’s one of the most effective non-surgical tools available for maintaining the structural quality of the skin.
Spider Vein Removal: The Quick Fix for Something That Bothers People More Than They Admit
Spider veins are the small, visible red, blue, or purple vessels that appear most commonly on the legs, though they can also appear on the face and other areas. They’re extremely common, largely harmless, and the source of a significant amount of quiet self-consciousness. People avoid shorts, skip swimsuits, and think twice about skirts because of them.
They’re also very treatable.
At Spa Bella, spider veins on both the legs and face are treated using laser and light-based technology — specifically long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser and BBL/IPL. The energy targets the hemoglobin inside the vessel and converts to heat, causing the vessel wall to collapse and seal. The body then gradually reabsorbs the closed vessel and it fades from view over several weeks. The treatment requires no injections into the veins, no anesthesia, and involves minimal discomfort. Multiple sessions are sometimes needed depending on the extent and location of the veins, but each treatment is quick and involves no meaningful downtime.
Spider vein removal doesn’t get the aesthetic press that injectables do, but for people who have been covering up for years because of visible leg veins, the results feel anything but minor. Wearing shorts without thinking twice is a simple thing. It’s also the kind of thing you don’t realize you’ve been missing until it’s back.
Laser Hair Removal: It’s Been Around Forever, but Most People Still Haven’t Done It
Laser hair removal isn’t new, and it’s not obscure — but it belongs in this conversation because the number of people who have thought about doing it, priced it out at some point, and then never followed through is enormous. It remains one of the most underutilized services at most med spas relative to how much demand exists for the result.
The case for it is straightforward. Laser energy targets and destroys the hair follicle, producing permanent reduction in hair growth over a series of treatments. Most people achieve 80 to 90 percent permanent reduction, and many see near-complete clearance in treated areas. The time and money spent on waxing, shaving, and threading over a lifetime — not to mention the ingrown hairs, the irritation, the inconvenience — adds up to considerably more than the cost of a treatment series.
Common treatment areas are underarms, bikini line, lower legs, upper lip, and chin, but virtually any area of the body can be treated. At Denver’s altitude, where active lifestyles make body hair management a more constant consideration, it’s a practical investment with genuine quality-of-life returns.
Multiple sessions are needed because hair grows in cycles and the laser is most effective during the active growth phase. Most people do six to eight sessions, spaced four to eight weeks apart depending on the area, and then occasional maintenance as needed.
The Common Thread
What all of these treatments share is that they address concerns people carry around quietly and often for years, not because solutions don’t exist but because nobody told them they did.
The aesthetic industry’s marketing attention goes to the treatments that photograph well and generate the most dramatic visible content. The treatments above tend to produce results that are harder to capture in a before-and-after — a smoother neck, a clearer leg, a more defined jawline, the absence of something that used to be there — but that change how people feel in their bodies in ways that are genuinely meaningful.
If any of these have been on your mind, the next step is a consultation. We’ll tell you honestly whether you’re a good candidate, what realistic results look like for your specific situation, and what the process actually involves.
The treatments you didn’t know to ask about are often the ones that end up mattering the most.
Spa Bella Medispa is Denver’s leading medical spa, located at 1685 S Colorado Blvd, Suite C. Call or text us at (303) 512-9000 or book online.