Can Acne Scars Be Removed

 

Any person suffering from acne scars has a question in mind ''can acne scars be removed''. Well, acne is a common condition affecting many people at some point in their life. Sometimes, severe acne occurs to many people leading to permanent and disfigured scaring. Pimples, blackheads, whiteheads, and zits are very prone to leaving permanent scars. Acne scaring is due to the damage caused to collagen within the skin in the form of inflammation thus leading to permanent texture changes in the skin.

Although acne scarring is permanent, it can be treated. One thing should be kept in mind that its essential to clear all acne before treating scaring. Some of the scar treatments that are helpful in scar removal are as follows:

1) Dermabrasion: There are mainly two layers of skin, the outer layer is epidermis while the inner layer is dermis. Superficial dermabrasion helps in removing the portions of the epidermis and deep dermabrasion in removing all of the epidermis and portions of the dermis. However, deep methods are mostly preferred for treating acne scars. The other two types of dermabrasion are motorized dermabrasion and manual dermasanding.

2) Laser resurfacing: Lasers use a high energy beam of light that targets specific structures in the skin thus destroying the outer layers of the skin as it is also ablative in nature.

3) Subsicion: Subsicion is mainly used for atrophic scarring. In this, local anaesthesia is used and a needle is inserted under the scar and moved underneath the skin to release the scar tissue.

4) Punch excision and grafting: In this, a small cookie cutter like device is used to cut out the scar and the edges of the wound are then sewn together with a suture.

5) Fillers: Fillers can improve your acne scars by flattening the scars but for maintaining the result, lesions should be re-injected at regular intervals.

6) Chemical peels: Chemical peels help in promoting the growth of a new skin with an improved appearance. Chemicals used can be glycolic acid, salicyclic acid, trihloroacetic acid, phenol, and many more.

So, these are some of the treatments which help in improving your acne scars and give you an acne free skin.

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