Effective Acne Scar Removal Options
Restore, Hydrate & Glow
Acne
Scarring
Acne scars can significantly affect your emotional well-being and self-esteem. As a result of acne, these scars often feel like a double blow to your confidence.
Scars form when collagen, produced by your skin to repair itself, creates indentations due to severe inflammation of the skin’s surface. Many people tend to pick, pop, or squeeze acne spots, including nodules, cysts, and pimples, in an effort to reduce their appearance. Unfortunately, this common habit worsens inflammation, damages surrounding skin, and leads to discoloration and scarring. By pushing acne-causing bacteria deeper into the skin, the damage to collagen increases, making scars more prominent.
Scars from acne appear on the face as one of the following scar types:
- Ice Pick Scars – small, deep holes in the surface of your skin that look like the skin has been punctured with a sharp object.
- Rolling Scars – caused by bands of scar tissue that form under the skin giving the surface of the skin a rolling and uneven appearance.
- Hypertrophic Scars – Thickened or ‘keloid scars’
Boxcar Scars – round or oval depressions, or craters, in the skin. - Hyperpigmentation – refers to the red or dark marks that are left behind after a pimple heals. These marks, also called macules, are not scars, but are often confused with scars because they can last for months or even years before they fade.
A statement we hear a lot from men and women who have visited us to regain confidence in their skin is that acne scar home remedies do not work. They have tested acne scar creams and lotions and are frustrated that these over-the-counter remedies for acne scarring have little impact on diminishing the appearance of scarring. However, we have successfully treated many men and women with several methods of treatment for acne scars with mild to moderate discomfort levels depending on depth of scarring and number of treatments needed.
It’s important to keep in mind that Scar treatment are not suitable for people with active acne, If you are suffering from acne or a poor complexion, don’t despair. We have a variety of safe and effective treatments to suit your condition.
Alternatively, if you have scars that are not a result of acne, you may also benefit from our Scar Treatment.
Treat Acne Scars at Medi-Sculpt with the following recommended treatments:
The Dermapen™, the original microneedling system introduced to the global market, offers unique features that set it apart. Its treatments are designed to stimulate a safe healing response within the body, triggering natural collagen and elastin secretion without harsh side effects and downtime. This results in healthier skin, with a brighter, tighter, more even tone, refined pores, and reduced wrinkles. These unique features make Dermapen™ a compelling choice for those seeking skin rejuvenation.
Dermapen™ is the only microneedling device with a unique scar setting and protocols for the revision of deep scars. It enhances the skin’s natural ability to repair itself due to physical damage such as abrasions and minor cuts. As a highly innovative treatment, it taps into the body’s natural healing process, thus promoting the regeneration of healthy, fresh tissue and collagen secretion.
Subcision is a minor medical procedure that breaks up fibrous bands that result in rolling scars. This specialised technique is performed under local anaesthesia by inserting a needle under the skin parallel to the skin surface. The needle is carefully advanced or retracted in a piston-like fashion, severing the tethering bands. The procedure results in bruising, which fades within seven days.
This approach, when appropriate, offers a promising path to significant improvement, usually within two to three sessions. Rolling acne scars, in particular, respond remarkably well to this technique.
Injecting acne scars with fillers can be a very satisfying procedure with relatively minimal downtime. However, because acne scars may tether down the skin, a few of these indented scars cannot be smoothed out with filler alone. When combining subcision with fillers, you begin to notice an entirely satisfying experience. A treatment, considered a match made in heaven, is carefully formulated and meticulously performed to pop out and gently sculpt the region where depressed scarring is present. Subcision works by stimulating the skin to promote the secretion of collagen, which slowly compensates for the slow erosion of the dermal filler.
When the acne has subsided, sometimes the scars from spots or picking can remain, leaving crater-like dimples, lumps, bumps and pigmentation. A Jessner’s peel can treat acne scars by re-texturising thickened or oily skin and improve the appearance of large pores.
In addition, it will exfoliate the skin’s upper layer and allow improved absorption of products. The simple in-office procedure takes less than an hour with minimal social downtime. You will have beautiful blemish free skin in less than 4 months.
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I have been coming to Dr Reddy for many years. She is definitely the best in the industry. She is up to date with the latest techniques and she also trains doctors. She is professional and her advice is always on point.
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