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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Acne Scars

By Gail Jones

Acne scars are a sad memento of the having suffered pimples or even acne previously. They are intolerable because of their seeming permanence and their non-complimentary look. Generally speaking, acne scars are rather hard to eradicate, but tissue regeneration is not impossible these days with all the amazing technological advancements.

In general terms, when referring to acne scarring, we mean the healed lesions resulting from an acne breakout. While most scarring is temporary and will probably disappear naturally in time, scarring from the more severe forms of acne can become permanent.

Acne scarring can be prevented if the sufferer sees a doctor when it is in the incipient stage, especially if nodules or cysts accompany the red pustules on the skin's surface. If the breakouts of acne have marked your skin, you will have to approach the problem from a different perspective, which most of the time involves surgery.

Laser resurfacing is one possibility of removing the damaged skin parts and stimulating the organic regeneration of the tissue underneath. This operation only requires local anaesthesia and can take between a few minutes and an hour depending on the extent of the problem.

Fractional laser therapy is one of the most recent methods of removing acne scarring. It involves surgical intervention at deep skin layers. The treatment is better than both dermabrasion and laser resurfacing in terms of quality and involves a much reduced healing period. Nevertheless, fractional laser therapy remains within the reach of only those few lucky sufferers, who can afford it, since it is the most expensive acne therapy currently available.

It can happen that other sessions are required to improve the condition of the superficial layers of skin, before they can tackle the deep level treatment of the acne scarring. The doctor may inject collagen into the scarring in order to elevate the existing skin level or she/he may suggest micro-dermabrasion for the same purpose. Trying to carry out chemical peels at home could be a bad policy because of the risk of aggravating the condition by irritating the scars even further.

As for the kinds of acne scars, they can be grouped according to the formation pattern. Scars 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 in deciding on the adoption of one form of treatment or the other. - 17273

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