Acne scars are a sad memento of the having suffered pimples or even acne. They are intolerable because of their apparent permanence and their non-complimentary look. Normally speaking, acne scars are rather difficult to treat, but tissue regeneration is not impossible these days with all the fantastic technological developments.
Generally speaking, by acne scarring, we mean the healed lesions caused by an acne breakout. While most scarring is temporary and will probably disappear naturally over time, scars from the more severe forms of acne can become permanent.
Acne scarring may be prevented if the sufferer visits doctor when the acne scarring is in an early stage, especially if nodules or cysts accompany the red pustules on the skin’s surface. If the breakouts of acne have scarred your skin, you will have to approach the issue from a different perspective, which most of the time involves surgery.
Laser resurfacing is one possibility of removing the damaged skin areas and stimulating the organic regeneration of the tissue underneath. This procedure only requires local anaesthesia and can take between a few minutes and an hour depending on the extent of the damage.
Fractional laser therapy is one of the most recent methods of removing acne scarring. It involves surgical intervention at deep skin layers. The therapy is better than both dermabrasion and laser resurfacing in terms of quality and involves a very reduced healing period. Nevertheless, fractional laser therapy is within the reach of only those few fortunate people, who can afford it, since it is the most expensive acne treatment available so far.
It can happen that further sessions are required to improve the condition of the superficial layers of skin, before they can start the deep level treatment of the acne scarring. The doctor may inject collagen into the scarring in order to elevate the normal skin level or she/he may suggest micro-dermabrasion for the same purpose. Trying to carry out chemical peels at home is a bad policy because of the risk of aggravating the condition by irritating the scars even further.
As for the forms of acne scars, they can be classified by the way they look. Scarring can result because of an increase of tissue or due to a loss of tissue They both have an adverse impact on the way the face looks. Specialists’ evaluation of the nature of the scars is a very important factor for the decision of adopting one kind of treatment or another.