Just the word surgery is scary. Having major surgery in order to alleviate acne scars is the last alternative for people affected by flawed tissues and ice pick acne scars.

You should ask yourself- how stressed and bothered are you by your acne scars? If you care about your skin, acne scars are obviously going to bother you. Do you feel so self conscious walking around in public with blemishes that you feel the desire to undergo a painful surgery to heal them?

There are extremely few acne scar treatments available that heal the worst type of scarring, the ice pick acne scar. Since these scars look like they were formed by someone stabbing your face with a sharp object, they are commonly the most psychologically harmful scars to deal with. The reason they don't respond to traditional scar treatments is because they need an ingredient that stimulates the development of collagen and elastin in the skin.

Scar removal is turning more and more possible with recent advancements in technology. Laser scar removal is now very common for patients with post inflammatory scarring and redness. Laser sessions alleviate mild to moderate acne scars but not highly depressed acne scars, and they do not promote the rebuilding elements necessary to fill in the holes. You will throw away thousands of dollars on an acne scar treatment that won't help you.

Treating acne scars appropriately

Fractional Resurfacing is one of the more recent discoveries in laser skin resurfacing. The method is comparable to other technologies in the way that the laser heats the dermis and initiates a cause and response. The non-invasive acne scarring therapy benefits small treatment areas, permeating deep into the skin and leaving the surrounding skin unaffected and intact. This 'fractional' therapy allows the skin to heal much faster using the body's innate healing mechanism to create new, healthy, tighter tissue.

Anywhere from 13 to 20% of the area is treated, leaving a majority of the scar or damaged skin untreated, hence the name 'fractional resurfacing'. Only part of the skin is treated at any one time. This facial acne scar treatment allows quick injury healing and a low chance of complications. Post skin treatment side effects include a burning or tingling sensation. Other patients complain of swelling and hyperpigmentation. Therapies are commonly repeated every two weeks but must be repeated 4 to 5 times for best results, the problem being that 3 therapies cost about 1,000 dollars and each one after that is about $500.

There is an acne scar solution named punch excision that is used commonly to help alleviate severe acne scarring. Small surgical instruments are used to effectively cut out the depressed holes and the injury is then sewn up and stitched. The curious aspect of this acne scar surgery is that you are just replacing one scar with another. This seems like an unproductive solution for acne scars, although it does seem to lessen the difficulties of living with severe acne scarring.