Acne Scar Treatments Review

Because acne scars are hard to treat, the best approach is to try to prevent them in the first place. So, the best way to avoid acne scars is to properly treat the acne.


The best way to prevent scars is to not do anything that makes matters worse.
If you not pick and oversqeezing blemishes, scarrig can be greatly reduced.

Using heaving or irritating facial products will also hinder the healing process.
Additionally, using ineffective topical disinfectants or exfoliants, can impede the skin’s ability to repair itself.

Patients with active acne present both ‘active’ (comedones, pustules, papules) and cicatricial lesions. An effective treatment must be undertaken in these patients to minimize existing scars and to prevent the development of new ones.

Treatment for acne includes a variety of oral and topical agents. Topical retinoids reduce the number of microcomedones, comedones, and inflammatory lesions. They may be used alone or in combination with other acne medications.
However, when these medications fails, treatments option include comedo removal, intralesional corticosteroid injection and acne surgery for pustules and cysts.

Those with the most severe types of acne may be given an even stronger vitamin-A related drug called Accutane (isotretinoin). Accutane is the only treatment that can potentially cure acne.
It should be used only for severe cases, not mild ones. It works by shrinking oil glands for one to two (sometimes three) years.

For severe acne, a new treatment that is much safer than Accutane has recently been developed. A treatment called Levulan PDT, or the “Blue Light Treatment,” is ideal for patients of all ages, including teens.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also approved a nonlaser, narrow-band, high-intensity visible blue-light therapy for treating inflammatory acne. It works by killing the acne-causing bacteria, P. acnes.

Control of acne is a long term, continuing process. Follow the instructions of your doctor faithfully and regularly if you want prevent ugly scars!

Punch excision, punch elevation, and punch replacement grafts are similar techniques that are used in the treatment of moderate and deep icepick type post-acne scars.

Punch excision describes a technique of eliminating the scar through the use of a trephine. After infiltration of local anesthesia the smallest possible trephine that will completely remove the scar is used to punch- excise down to subcutaneous fat.
Depending on the size of the scar, a 1.5 to 3 mm biopsy punch is used to remove the entire defect and closed with sutures.

The downtime for Punch Excision of acne scars is approximately 1 week. Sutures are usually removed within 5-7 days, but there may be some residual bruising at the sites for a week or two.

Some of the punch excisions might be covered by insurance. I suggest you to check with your insurance provider. If not it should cost about $250 to $750 per punch excision.

Excision is recommended for icepick scars! Short downtime, pretty cheap and REAL improvement! 90% improvement!

Fat transfer can be used to elevate acne scars.


This technique is aslo known as microlipoinjection or fat grafting; fat cells are tranferred from one part of a patient’s body to another to fill in defects such as acne scars.

The Surgeon cleans and numbs the site from wich the fat will be extract and the site to wich it will be transferred. Hi then withdrawsfat tissue with a siringe or a cannula similar of that used for liposuction, separates fat cells from the other tissue, and injects the cells into the approppriate site, repeating the process until it is necessary for a good result.

Possible complications include infection, scarring and nerve or blood vessel damage during surgery.
Discoloration and swelling can last for several days or weeks, depending on the size of the filled area.