Bitner is an expert in all different types of skin resurfacing in Salt Lake City, Utah. If your primary complaint is sags or bulges, surgery is usually necessary. If, however, it is wrinkles and creases, then some type of skin resurfacing will be needed.
Oftentimes, both surgery and skin resurfacing can be combined to optimize overall results. As we get older, changes occur in the skin. These changes include loss of elasticity, thinning and increased laxity. Additionally, changes in pigmentation including lighting of some areas and darkening of others occurs. These change are both genetically predetermined and the result of lifetime cumulative sun exposure.
Whenever one addresses concerns of facial aging the tool must match the concern. Surgery is used to correct sags and bulges, whereas skin resurfacing is designed to tighten wrinkles and creases, remove age spots and blend the skin tones. Choosing the right type of skin resurfacing for the problem to be addressed requires vision, experience, the right equipment and the skill to address those concerns. They typically have a laser sales representative serving as the primary educator on how the equipment should be used.
These doctors will often attend a weekend seminar on use of skin resurfacing devices and consider themselves fully trained.
This dangerous trend has lead to many cases of ineffective treatment with disappointing results or true disasters. Lasers and other devices are very useful when used properly and for the right problem. Those improperly trained in use of skin resurfacing devices can, at best, waste the patients time and money providing little to no benefit, and, at worst, produce permanent and disfiguring scarring. He has either personally performed or participated in performing literally hundreds of procedures.
