I didn't know anything about acne scar laser treatment to remove, blend, or diminish the pocks and other marks, then. It was the 1980s, and I was not all that focused on beauty (but rather on getting through graduate school, therapy, and three jobs); and I was ignorant about skin care innovations. But I said to the man of the week, a cool guy, actually, for most purposes, that I wanted to sand-paper my face skin, so I could lesson the devastating holes'or at least so I could fill in the open pores, the holes where acne had been.
Think of the face as being made of clay. Imagine that clay face full of big gouges, dents, or blemishes?new and old. Envision taking a stylus or other sculptor's tool to drag and smear new clay into those pits and over those scars and marks. It seems logical, right? Your new face would be pock-free and smooth again, as it had been in pre-adolescent days. If you think of the new techniques, surgical, cosmetic, and other, used to remove acne marks, you might think in terms of the sculptor's clay and maneuvers analogy. Then again, you might think more in terms of the face as an unfinished or marked piece of furniture that about to get sand-papered. Not all that ?imaginative? or, rather, new, today, though. Now we have such a re-sculpting device: we have acne scar laser treatment.
Acne scar laser treatment, also called resurfacing and also used for wrinkles, works in a particular way. According to one plastic surgery professional, acne scar laser treatment done by a CO2 laser or an erbium laser?which ?vaporizes? superficial damaged skin cells. This frees up the existing and healthier collagen to get thicker and to become even healthier.
The emphasis honest practitioners of acne scar laser treatment offer, though, is that such treatment does not ?cure? or magically remove all acne marks and blemishing. Rather, it improves the skin condition, diminishing though not completely removing.
Other details are equally important. Depending upon type of acne scar laser treatment, be prepared to accept the treatment as a kind of surgery. You might undergo sedation or anesthesia of some type or degree; you can expect to be in the outpatient treatment room for anywhere from fifteen to ninety minutes; and you will need anywhere from three days to three weeks to wait for the swelling to go down and the abrasions, redness, and/or oozing to stop completely so you can resume typical skin care.
I certainly didn't envision such a complicated process. Then again, I didn't come up with the idea all by myself, evidently. And besides, I am not a doctor, nor do I play one when writing.
Acne can be a terrible emotional and psychology scourge to those suffering from it but when acne finally goes away, many also have to live with the by-product of severe acne and that is the left over scarring. For some, the scarring is worse than the acne because the acne could be treated and would eventually go away but many scars last forever.
Scarring may never go away because acne scars are not on the surface of the skin but their roots are deep down in the skin. For those who decide to invest in skin treatment, acne laser treatment is becoming a more popular and viable solution. On the other hand, it can be a bit expensive but for those suffering from scars if it can help its money well spent.
One of the features that makes treating acne scars using a specialized laser is that results can be seen relatively quickly compared to lotions or ointments that can improve the skin but results are slow. In fact, because the results take such a long time and in many instances are not as effective treating acne scars via laser for some can actually be a less expensive alternative.
Only trained medical health care professionals should administer acne laser treatment so be sure to make sure any clinic you decide to use is fully qualified. The first step in the process of treating acne and acne scarring with lasers is to kill the bacteria that are causing the pimple outbreaks. The next step is to shrink the sebaceous glands, which produce the oil. This helps to ensure that future outbreaks are reduced or even completed stopped in some instances.
In addition to greatly reducing or even preventing acne, acne laser surgery can greatly reduce the appearance of scars. If scarring is bad it will take more than one session to reduce their appearance and it may not be possible to completely eliminate any signs of scarring but for those with light scarring one session can completely remove the scars for some.
Another nice aspect of treating acne with lasers is that there are no known side effects and while being treated there is little or no pain during the sessions which normally take less than an hour to complete.
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