ELYRIA, Ohio -- Many women and men complain that sex is not the same after childbirth. But now a controversial new surgery is coming to northeast Ohio that may change that problem.

NewsChannel5 health team reporter Alicia Booth talked exclusively with the only doctor in Ohio trained to perform the surgery.

Elyria OBGYN Kevin Wisler is a father of six who's delivered thousands of babies in the last 21 years.

He said his patients convinced him to become the first and only doctor in the state to perform laser vaginal rejuvenation.

Wisler went to Beverly Hills to train under David Matlock, the 90210 gynecologist who patented a procedure that uses a laser to cut and then tighten vaginal walls.

Booth said the procedure is highly controversial, but Matlock said it heightens his patients' sexual experience. Critics suggest there is a lack of evidence that the expensive procedure works.

The outpatient surgery takes about an hour to an hour and a half to reconstruct the area, and six weeks for it to heal well enough for patients to have sex.

Part of Elyria Memorial Hospital is going become the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of northern Ohio. Booth said patients are already lining up.

Karen Griffiths, 50, is one of the people who convinced Wisler to get the training for the surgery.

"I was real nervous when I met Scott because it was real hard to think about being intimate with somebody when you've been in a marriage for 18 years," said Griffiths.

Her husband had a fatal heart attack six years ago, and her fiancé lost his wife of 18 years to a long illness. Now they are engaged to be married. They feel they are truly meant to be together.

However, Griffiths wants to make an already good sex life even better, and Scott is happy to go along with it.

The doctor who pioneered the procedure has come under fire from critics. Among them, a former president of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons who said there's just not enough scientific evidence that the laser works the way Matlock said it does.

"Basically, the laser is used to make it a more bloodless procedure, quicker healing, that type of thing, but the surgical technique is a modification of a procedure that's been done probably since the 1930s by gynecologists," said Wisler.

Griffiths said she has no concerns about the risks, which most commonly are infection and hemorrhage. She's anxious for Wisler and the institute to open for business.

Wisler expects to start the surgeries at EMH next month. The procedure will cost between $6,500 and $8,500.

The institute will also offer laser surgery for cosmetic changes to the female genitalia as well as surgery that can even restore a woman's hymen.