Dr. Weiss has received highly specialized university fellowship training in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Weiss is a good choice for the Medical Director of Weiss Cosmetic & Laser Procedures. He has been using medical lasers since 1980 and has performed many procedures at the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic while on the faculty at the University of California at Irvine as well as other regional laser centers. Among the lasers that he has trained with and has used for research and clinical use:

Skin resurfacing lasers

  • Mixto Fractional CO2 laser
  • Lumenis Active and Deep FX fractional CO2 laser
  • Lutronic fractional CO2 laser
  • Fraxel Sr 1500 laser (skin rejuvenation)
  • Coherent Ultrapulse CO2 (skin rejuvenation and cosmetic eyelid surgery)
  • Sharplan CO2 (skin rejuvenation)
  • Erbium lasers (skin rejuvenation)

Refractive and eye laser experience

  • Ziemer Crystal Line Femtosecond Laser for advanced Z-LASIK
  • Wavefront-Guided WaveLight Allegretto excimer laser
  • Intralase for advanced all laser LASIK procedures
  • VISX Star excimer laser, Nidek excimer laser
  • Bausch & Lomb Chiron Technolas excimer laser
  • YAG lasers (for posterior capsulotomies)
  • Coherent argon – trichiasis (lashes against eye)

Vascular lasers

  • Coherent Versapulse – vascular telangiectasia (prominent vessels)
  • Candela Scleroplus – port wine stain, vascular telangiectasia (prominent vessels)
  • Variable Pulse Width (VPW) 532 nm- telangiectasia

Pigment removal lasers

  • Laseaway Ruby (694nm) – lentigines, nevus of Ota, tattoos, (better for lentigines in darker skin, less chance of depigmentation)
  • Alexandrite (755nm) – tattoos, especially yellow and green
  • Q-switched 532nm- red tattoos
  • Nd:YAG 1064nm – tattoos (not green or yellow)