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Your Treatment Options for Acne Scarring and Disfigurement

There is no one particular treatment for acne scarring. In fact, it all depends on the severity of your acne scars and how disfiguring they are. Before choosing a particular treatment for those leftover pimple pits in the skin, you have to understand the types of scars first. There are three main types:

1. Boxcar scars – These acne scars are somewhat round depressions in the skin with distinct vertical boundaries. Some boxcar pimple scars are shallow and can be treated with normal resurfacing techniques. However, the deep ones require intricate care.

2. Ice pick scars – These are skinny, inverted pointy acne scars that look as if your skin was poked time and again with an ice pick. These are usually deep and resist conventional skin and scar resurfacing techniques.

3. Rolling scars – This type of acne scar looks like your skin ripples because some of your outer skin layers are attached to the subcutaneous layer beneath. Surgery is required to disconnect those thick, scarred over attachments.

Your treatment for acne scarring depends on which of the scar types you have listed above. There are several options to think about:

1. Laser resurfacing is the most popular “in” zit scar treatment. Using a laser, the outer layer of skin is basically burned off so that new skin can grow. This works really for just skin discolorations and very slight acne scarring.

2. Dermal and collagen fillers could be inject into your pimple pits to raise the skin level for a more even look. This treatment is temporary however and has to be repeated as time goes by.

3. Deep boxcar and ice pick scars require a method called a punch excision. A special tool approximately the same size as the scar is used to basically turn that scar inside out. The edges are then stitched together. Initially, you will have new scars from the procedure that will eventually fad away. If those surgery scars do not fade away enough, then you could try a resurfacing technique like the laser.

4. Another acne scar treatment consists of the procedure of the punch excision. Only this time, surgeons will take a skin graft from a not so noticeable area to graft to the excised scar. This will likely produce a noticeable difference on the skin’s surface but once the skin heals, you could try resurfacing to see if that corrects the discoloration and texture.

5. Rolling acne scars need more involved care. A subcision is performed which involved working a needle parallel to the surface of the skin. Within the tip of this needle are fine cutting instruments which will then cut those tenuous ties between the subcutaneous layer and the outer dermis. You can expect some bleeding and bruising but no noticeable scarring from surgery.

There is no one true right or wrong way in treating acne scars. In fact, several procedures may be combined together to get the desired result you are seeking: smooth skin with little to no traces of those scars left from acne.