When fine lines, rough patches and acne scars have built up over the years, creams can only do so much. Laser resurfacing in Springville, UT renews the skin by removing or heating thin layers of damaged skin, so smoother, firmer skin can grow in.
Resurfacing can be gentle — a refresh with little downtime — or deeper for more visible change. Your provider tunes the treatment to your skin and to how much time you can take off.
When You Need Laser Resurfacing
Laser resurfacing helps with fine lines and wrinkles, rough or uneven texture, enlarged pores, sun damage and blotchy tone, and acne or surgical scars. It is most often done on the face, but the neck, chest and hands can be treated too.
Years of high-altitude Utah sun add up as texture changes and uneven tone. Resurfacing is usually best scheduled in fall and winter, when it is easier to keep healing skin out of the sun. People with recent tanning, active acne or cold sores, or certain medicines, may need to wait.
Good candidates are adults with fine lines, texture changes or scars who can protect their skin from the sun while it heals. If you have a history of cold sores, keloid scars or dark spots after skin injury, tell your provider, since those can change which laser and settings are safest for you.
Our Laser Resurfacing Process
At your consultation, your provider looks at your skin, asks about medicines and past treatments, and recommends a depth and number of sessions. If you are prone to cold sores, you may be given medicine to prevent a flare.
On treatment day, numbing cream is applied. The laser passes over the skin in sections, which feels warm and prickly. Lighter treatments take under an hour, and you can return to most activities within a few days. Deeper treatments involve redness, swelling and peeling for about a week or more.
Results build over weeks as new collagen forms. Lighter resurfacing usually works best as a series spaced several weeks apart.
Healing skin needs gentle care. Keep it moisturized with the products your provider recommends, avoid picking any flaking skin, sleep with your head slightly raised if there is swelling, and stay out of direct sun. Once healed, wear broad-spectrum sunscreen every day — new skin is especially sensitive to UV, and protecting it is how you keep the smoother texture you paid for.
Laser Resurfacing Cost in Springville
Cosmetic laser resurfacing is self-pay. Cost depends on the area, the depth of treatment and the number of sessions. Your provider will give you the price for the full plan before you begin.
Why Choose Us
Your laser resurfacing is planned inside a dermatology practice led by Dr. Michael Peterson, who is board-certified in dermatology and dermatopathology. That means any spot that looks unusual is checked before it is treated with light. We use medical-grade devices, tell you the number of sessions and the cost up front, and offer same-day consultations in Springville. Daily Herald readers voted us first in the Best of Utah Valley from 2019 through 2023.
Laser resurfacing is one of the laser treatments we offer in Springville.