Prairie Fields Family Medicine has expanded to offer aesthetic services, the first of its kind in Fremont.

Prairie Fields Aesthetic Services began offering skin treatments at the beginning of May. Dr. Tom Wolf said they can help with many things involving skin care. They can treat scaring, brown spots that come with age, fine lines and wrinkles, solar damage and sun spots, acne and acne scaring, leg and facial veins, angiomas and more.

Now, Fremonters will have a local option for these treatments, instead of having to travel to Omaha.

Its something thats new to the community, Wolf said. No one else is doing anything like this in Fremont or in Dodge County.

In addition to treating existing imperfections, theyll help with general skin care. Aesthetic Services has partnered with EltaMD, who offers sunscreen and other skin care products like cleansers and moisturizers that are available only through physicians offices.

Wolf said the EltaMD products can help prevent skin cancer, the most common cancer.

We at Prairie Fields Aesthetics are taking a proactive approach to prevention by educating our patients and staff how they can protect themselves and prevent skin cancer, he said. All of our sunscreens are physical in nature and contain no chemicals, while providing protection against both UVA and UVB rays.

The products help with prevention and are useful after treatments. Debra Mullins, a representative from EltaMD said the sunscreen is best for anti-aging in addition to preventing skin cancer. She said 99 percent of aging in skin lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation is from the sun.

People here in the Midwest, theyre outside, Wolf said. We spend time outside a lot. Its important that we can provide products to help maintain their health.

They also offer hair removal. Wolf said hair removal is popular for underarms and is relatively permanent after about five treatments.

Prairie Fields Family Medicine has been in business since 1981. The focus at Prairie Fields is still family medicine, Wolf said, but these new services mean they can do more to help patients feel comfortable in their skin. They made the commitment to add the services at Prairie Fields in March.

Its a new endeavor that were going down, Tom Wolf said. We wanted to offer patients in the community the same type of great care that we provide here, but also for their aesthetic needs.

The treatments can help reduce perceived aging, he said.

When you look at someone, you dont even really know that youre doing it, but the more changes to their complexion that you see, variability, the older you generally think a person is, Wolf said. As we age, and sun affects our skin, it has more variability to it: freckles, brown spots, age spots.

Consultations are free. Treatment plans are then customized based on the individuals needs.

We really try to look at the whole patient and figure out what things are most concerning to them and come up with the treatment, said Misti Wolf, a registered nurse and Tom Wolfs wife.

In the short time since theyve opened, Wolf said things have been great.

Its been very well received, he said. When patients come in for treatments and they leave just excited and happy, really joyful about it, thats a fun thing to do day in and day out.

Tom Wolf, M.D., works with his wife Misti Wolf andSam Renter, both registered nurses. To prepare they took training on operating a laser for treatment known as laser genesis.

The first patients have been nervous to be operated on with the laser, Tom Wolf said, but have come away pleasantly surprised. Its not painful and redness fades after a few hours. Prairie Fields Aesthetic Services also uses a limelight procedure to treat patients.

Misti Wolf said she treated a woman with spider veins in her legs. For the patient, it was more personal than an issue that others noticed.

We treated her and she pretty much instantly noticed a difference, she said. She was thrilled. She was truly ecstatic.

Experiences like that are beneficial for more than the patient; Tom Wolf and registered nurses Misti Wolf and Sam Renter said helping customers be happier with their appearance has been rewarding.

Its been exciting to have patients come in wanting to improve their skin conditions and making them comfortable in their own skin, Misti Wolf said.

When you look better, you feel better, Tom Wolf added. That translates to improvements in well-being all around.

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