Cosmetic Skin & Laser Center

A gloved hand presses a white skin-tightening handpiece against a patient's gel-coated jawline.

Cosmetic Skin & Laser Center is listed on Google Maps as a medical spa in Chelsea. For a reader in Dexter it has the second-longest treatment menu in the order, which makes it worth a close look before a problem forces the choice.

Where it stands

This site ranks providers on Non-surgical treatments offered, from the highest count down, and Cosmetic Skin & Laser Center is second. The reason is plain: cslcbeauty.com lists 38 treatments. Its Google Maps profile shows a 4.8 rating across 76 reviews, the lowest rating among the top five providers.

What is easy to check about this clinic, and what is not

  • Strength: a long published menu, second only to the first-place provider.
  • Strength: Google Maps lists it as a medical spa, and its name leads with skin and laser work.
  • Limit: the menu count says nothing about how a clinic handles a result that goes wrong.
  • Limit: it is in Chelsea, not Dexter.

What to read before you call

If laser work is why you are calling, bring laser reading with you. The review Current Laser Resurfacing Technologies: A Review that Delves Beneath the Surface covers resurfacing devices, and Update on Tissue Tightening covers tightening. For the questions a professional body wants you to ask any med spa, see the American Society of Plastic Surgeons article on what to look for in a med spa. If melasma is your concern, start with Melasma: Diagnosis and treatment.

Urgent first, cosmetic second

Ask the clinic to say, in its own words, which problems it wants to see the same day and which can wait for a booked visit. A clear answer to that question is worth more than a long menu.

Other clinics to compare

A reader who wants a wider choice can compare CosMedic LaserMD, first in the order. A reader who would rather stay in Ann Arbor can compare Radiance Beauty Lab, third in the order.

Before you pick up the phone

Choose two providers, ask both the same-day question, and keep the written answers side by side.