2180 S 1300 E, Suite 210 · Sugar House, Salt Lake City Tue–Fri 9–6 · Sat 9–2 · Mon closed for calibration
FLUENCE Laser Medicine
(801) 555-0147 Book a consult
Gloved hands turning a knurled dial on the control panel of a laser console, lit only by the amber readouts of the panel itself.
ROOM 2 · SETTING FLUENCE
Sugar House · Salt Lake City

Laser hair removal, sun damage and resurfacing — with a doctor in the room.

FLUENCE is a laser medicine practice on 2180 South. We treat unwanted hair, sun spots, facial veins and pigment with medical lasers — and we read a test spot on your own skin 48 hours before we treat you.

Book a consult — $75 Call (801) 555-0147
  • Physician on site for every laser session
  • Test spot read at 48 hours, every time
  • Nd:YAG, alexandrite and fractional CO2
  • Street parking on 2100 South · Suite 210
Treatments

What we treat, and with which wavelength.

All of it happens in Room 2 with Dr. Halvorsen present. If a laser is not the right answer for what you have, you will hear that at the consult rather than after you have paid for a package.

Not sure which one is yours? Most people book the consult first. It is thirty minutes with the lights up, a test spot on your forearm, and a written plan — and the $75 comes straight off your first session.

Book a consult — $75

  • Laser hair removal

    Alexandrite at 755 nm for fair skin, Nd:YAG at 1064 nm for darker. Six to eight sessions, six weeks apart, because hair only answers in its growth phase.

    755 / 1064 nm · 22–90 min $120 small · $340 large

  • Sun damage and brown spots

    An IPL photofacial for the freckling and mottling that years of outdoor sun leave behind. Most faces take three sessions, a month apart.

    IPL 560 nm filter · 40 min $395

  • Facial veins and redness

    A long-pulse 1064 nm closes the small vessels around the nose and cheeks. Usually one session, sometimes two.

    1064 nm long pulse · 30 min $275

  • Melasma and pigment

    Q-switched at deliberately conservative settings, because pigment punished with too much energy comes back darker than it started.

    532 / 1064 nm Q-switched · 25 min $310

  • Fractional CO2 resurfacing

    Ablative, at 10,600 nm, for texture and deeper lines. Five to seven days of genuine recovery, and we will not pretend otherwise to get it booked.

    10,600 nm · 90 min $2,400
Why we see so much of it

At 4,226 feet, the sun here is not the sun you grew up with.

The Salt Lake valley seen from the snow-covered foothills in winter, the Wasatch range running across the horizon.
Melanoma incidence per 100,000

40.8 Utah

22.5 United States

Ultraviolet exposure climbs roughly 3 to 4 percent for every thousand feet you gain, and this valley starts at 4,226 of them — with a population that is largely fair-skinned and outdoors all year. The accumulated damage we see does not look like the damage at sea level, and it is most of what walks through the door.
Everyone gets a wavelength 1064 nm Nd:YAG travels deeper and is far less interested in the melanin sitting in your epidermis, which is why darker skin is treated with it — long pulse, higher fluence, more cooling. Nobody here is told they are “not a candidate” because the only device in the building was the wrong one.
Where we stop If we see something on your skin that belongs to a dermatologist, we say so and refer you. That is not a service we upsell and it is not a screening we advertise — it is the minimum you should expect from anyone who looks at sun-damaged skin under good light for a living. We treat the cosmetic consequences of ultraviolet exposure; diagnosis is somebody else's job, and we are not shy about saying whose. COSMETIC DIAGNOSIS what we do where we send you
A treatment room with the overhead lights switched off. Deep petrol-green fills the frame; a small amber interlock lamp burns above the closed door at the far end, and a pair of amber laser goggles rests on the folded drape of the treatment chair.
ROOM 2 · 1064 nm · INTERLOCK ARMED

The room is dark because the room should be dark.

  • ROOM 2 Class 4 · door interlocked
  • EYEWEAR OD-rated, one pair per person
  • LIGHT overheads down, panel only
ROOM 2
LASER ARMED

Ambient light competes with reading skin. With the overheads down we can see what the tissue is actually doing between pulses — which is the only reason to look at it at all. It is a working condition, not a mood.

The amber lamp over the door is an interlock, wired to the emission: if the door opens while the laser is armed, the system stops. Everyone who comes into this room wears goggles rated for the wavelength we are running. That includes you, and it includes us.

Parameters

Every setting on this page is a number we can show you.

A laser does not have “programs.” It has a wavelength, an energy density, a pulse width, a spot size and a cooling delay. Those five numbers are the treatment. If a clinic will not tell you what they set, there is a reason.

  • Device Nd:YAG + ALEX One dual-wavelength platform, plus a fractional CO2 for resurfacing.
  • Wavelength 1064 / 755 nm 532 nm Q-switched · 10,600 nm CO2
  • Session 22 min Upper lip. A full face runs to 90 minutes.
  • Recovery 0 days Non-ablative. Ablative resurfacing is 5–7 days.
  • Supervision MD ON SITE Utah requires a physician on site. We don't treat without one.
Wavelength — what the light is aimed at 450 2,000 12,000 nm 532 755 1064 10,600 Log scale. 532, 755 and 1064 nm are near neighbors chasing pigment and vessels; CO2 at 10,600 nm is a different job entirely — it is absorbed by water and removes tissue.
Spot size — 8, 12, 15 mm 81215 mm less scatter deeper reach A wider beam loses less energy sideways, so it works deeper at the same fluence. It also means fewer passes over the same skin.
Fluence, by skin type 12–18 J/cm²
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
Typical for Fitzpatrick I–II. Types IV–VI run higher — 24–32 J/cm² — with a long pulse of 30–60 ms, so the energy arrives slowly enough for the epidermis to shed the heat. Your test spot decides where in the range you land.
Extreme close-up of the tip of a laser handpiece: a circular sapphire cooling window ringed with cryogen frost, a thin plume of cold vapour lifting off the metal collar.
SAPPHIRE WINDOW · −5 °C
Cooling — the skin is chilled before the light arrives CRYOGEN 50 ms delay 20 ms PULSE t = 0 t = 70 ms Cryogen spray, a short delay, then the pulse. Alternatively a sapphire window held between −5 and +5 °C, in contact with the skin. Either way the surface is cold before any energy reaches the target underneath it.
Our team · Class 4 safety

We'll tell you which of us is doing what.

Utah law is unusually clear about this, and we think it is a feature rather than fine print. A physician has to be physically present while medical aesthetic procedures are performed. Neuromodulators, fillers and ablative laser are theirs alone.

Overhead still life: amber-lensed laser safety goggles with a thick strap lying on a folded petrol-green surgical drape, beside a stainless tray holding a fine-tipped surgical skin marker.
OD-RATED · ONE PAIR PER PERSON
Dr. Marit Halvorsen, MD — Medical Director In the room for every laser session, not down the hall and not on a phone. She sets the parameters, reads your test spot and signs off on the plan.
Tessa Nakamura — Master Esthetician Licensed in the master esthetician category, which in Utah covers non-ablative devices under supervision. That is exactly what she runs, and nothing else.
Door interlock DOOR OPEN EMISSION STOPS Wired, not procedural. The lamp above the frame says the room is armed; opening the door stops the beam whether or not anyone remembered to.
A consultation room with the overhead lights fully on: pale mint walls, an empty upright treatment chair, an instrument cart against the wall and daylight from a window on the left.
CONSULT · LIGHTS UP
The 48-hour protocol

We test a spot on your skin and send you home for 48 hours. Then we treat.

Almost nobody does this, because it costs a second visit and it slows the sale down. It is also the only way to know how your skin answers these numbers before we point the machine at your face.

  1. 01

    Read the skin

    Thirty minutes with the lights up. Skin type, sun history, medications, what you actually want changed. No device is switched on.

  2. 02

    Mark and fire

    A two-centimeter square on the inner forearm, outlined in surgical marker, treated at the settings we would use on you.

  3. 03

    Go home

    Forty-eight hours. Redness that fades, pigment that lifts, anything that blisters — all of it shows up in that window, and none of it shows up in ten minutes.

  4. 04

    Set the numbers

    We read the square, adjust fluence and pulse width, and write the settings down. You get a copy. Then we treat.

The inside of a freckled, sun-weathered forearm resting on a petrol-green drape, with a small square outlined in fine surgical marker and a faint transient pinkness inside it.
TEST SPOT · +48 h · FITZPATRICK II
What we are looking for A faint pink that has gone by the second day means the setting was right. Pink that is still there, or pigment that darkened instead of lifting, means we come down and try again. It is not a formality: roughly one consult in six leaves here with a different plan than the one they walked in expecting, and two or three a month leave with none at all because laser is not the answer to what they have.
Pricing

Printed once, in full, with the unit attached.

No packages you have to buy before anyone has looked at your skin, no countdown, no “from.” If a plan needs more than one session we will say how many at the consult, before you pay for the first.

  • Consult + test spot$75

    Credited in full to your first session.

  • Laser hair removal · small area$120

    Upper lip, chin, underarm. About 22 minutes in the chair.

  • Laser hair removal · large area$340

    Full legs or back. Around 90 minutes.

  • Facial veins and redness$275

    Nose and cheeks. Usually one session, sometimes two.

  • Melasma and pigment$310

    Q-switched, conservative settings, reviewed between sessions.

  • IPL photofacial · sun damage$395

    Full face. Most Fitzpatrick I–III sun damage takes three sessions, spaced a month apart.

  • Fractional CO2 resurfacing · full face$2,400

    Ablative. Five to seven days of recovery, and you will want to clear the calendar for them.

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Questions

The six we are asked most.

Do I really have to come in twice?Q1

For anything with a laser, yes. The consult and the test spot happen on the first visit; treatment starts on the second, at least 48 hours later. It is the difference between treating your skin and treating an average.

Who is actually in the room?Q2

Dr. Marit Halvorsen, MD, our medical director, is present for every laser session. Tessa Nakamura, a licensed master esthetician, runs non-ablative devices under her supervision. Utah requires a physician on site for medical aesthetic procedures, and we don't treat without one.

Does this work on darker skin?Q3

Yes, with the right wavelength. Fitzpatrick IV–VI is treated at 1064 nm with a long pulse — 30 to 60 ms — at 24–32 J/cm² and more aggressive cooling. What is unsafe is running an alexandrite at type-II settings on type-V skin, which is why the test spot exists.

How much downtime?Q4

Non-ablative treatments — hair removal, IPL, vascular work — have none worth the name: an hour or two of warmth and color. Fractional CO2 is a genuine five to seven days, and we will not pretend otherwise to get it booked.

What if you find something that isn't cosmetic?Q5

We tell you, and we refer you to a dermatologist. We do not diagnose and we do not sell you a screening. Cosmetic damage is our work; anything else belongs to someone with a different license.

Why are you closed on Mondays?Q6

Calibration. A Class 4 laser is checked and its output measured before the week starts, and that is not something you do between appointments with the room half booked.

Visit

Sugar House, on the east side of 1300 East.

Street parking on 2100 South; the entrance is on the east side of the building, past the planters, and Suite 210 is one floor up with the lift straight ahead of you. An address in this city is a coordinate pair — 2180 South 1300 East is 21.8 blocks south and 13 east of a single zero point downtown — so if you can count blocks you cannot miss us.

Address 2180 S 1300 E Suite 210, Salt Lake City, UT 84106 — Sugar House.

(801) 555-0147

Hours
  • Tue–Fri 9:00 – 18:00
  • Sat 9:00 – 14:00
  • Sun Closed
  • Mon Closed — equipment calibration
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The glazed entrance of a low brick building with a shallow canopy, a concrete path and young trees on either side.
EAST ENTRANCE · SUITE 210

40.7250° N · 111.8570° W ELEV 4,226 FT 2180 SOUTH · 1300 EAST