Getting Rid of Facial Acne Scars

Acne scars are a result of the appearance of acne. This problem begins when the skin is inundated with sebum (oil) that is produced by the sebaceous glands to moisturize and protect the skin. Factors like hormones and stress can cause an increase in sebum production.

With elevated sebum secretion, the fragile cells that line the follicle can be damaged as the sebum pours through the canals to the surface. Other contributing factors can alter the state of the sebum, making it even more harmful to the skin. These factors include a deficiency in essential fatty acids, which keep the sebum oil from hardening, and acne causing bacteria.

This physical state change means that sebum more easily blocks pores, trapping debris and bacteria inside, allowing them to multiply. The body’s immune response includes sending immune cell soldiers to the site to fight off the bacteria and further protect the skin from damage; however, this response can actually further damage the skin.

In their fervent efforts to dispose of these foreign bodies, the immune cells can actually destroy healthy tissue surrounding the damaged cells and bacteria. Furthermore, the injury to the dermal layer also affects the amount of collagen found and produced, ultimately leaving a scar.

Body acne scars can either be hypertrophic or atrophic. Hypertrophic scars are those that extend from the normal level of skin and include keloid scars, which are hypertrophic scars that continue to expand in size. Both of these types of scars are more regularly found on the back or chest. Atrophic scars, those that are lower than the regular skin level are the types of scars more commonly resulting from facial acne.

Due to injury caused at the lower skin layers, ice pick, boxcar and rolling scars are bound down, making them difficult types of scars to treat.

Facial Acne Scar Treatment Options

To rid facial acne scars, normal scar procedures won’t cut it. For example, injecting steroids (like it is done in hypertrophic scars) to make them flat will not help. In general, it is difficult to bring depressions up to the normal skin level.

In order to raise skin, one must generate new and healthy skin cells. Facial resurfacing for acne scars is a method to raise your skin. The basic idea behind resurfacing, regardless of the form in which skin is stripped, is a controlled removal to stimulate new skin growth.

Laser resurfacing for facial acne scars uses non-ablative lasers on the skin, sending quick pulses of high energy light. The light is converted into heat energy that systematically vaporizes one layer after the next of skin. However, you don't simply laser face acne scars away. The scar tissue is removed and new skin growth is stimulated to replace that which was removed.

Laser skin resurfacing acne scars is a precise method that does not cause much damage to the surrounding skin. For these reasons, it is often the preferred method for treating scars on the face.

There are other resurfacing options but are not as effective. Dermabrasion for acne scars is a less precise way of regenerating new skin. Dermabrasion abrades away layers of skin using a high speed rotating instrument. Chemical peels on facial acne scars use similar thinking but peel away skin layers with a chemical solution that first causes the skin to blister. These methods are typically applied to the entire face with lengthy recovery periods.

Facial surgery for acne scars might also be considered for depressed scars. Subcision detaches the lower levels of skin so it is less depressed. Punch techniques are helpful for the really deep scarring, such as ice pick scars. These procedures (punch excision, punch excision plus skin grafting and punch elevation) remove the tissue with the scar. Depending on the procedure and type of scar, the suture or replacement of remaining tissue follows.

For a temporary solution, dermal fillers can be used to treat facial acne scars as they raise lower areas but must be repeated to retain results.

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