The word surgery alone is scary. Going under the knife in order to alleviate acne scars is the last alternative for people afflicted by damaged skin 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 scarring is obviously going to trouble you. Are you getting to the point where you feel so uncomfortable walking around in public with imperfections that you feel the desire to undergo a painful surgery to heal them?

There are extremely few acne scar solutions available that heal the worst type of scarring, the ice pick acne scar. Because such scars appear to be formed by someone stabbing your face with a sharp instrument, they are commonly the most psychologically harmful scars to deal with. The reason they don't respond to common scar treatments is because they need an ingredient that promotes the development of collagen and elastin in the skin.

Scar removal is becoming more and more possible with recent discoveries in technology. Laser scar removal is now very common for people with post inflammatory scarring and redness. Laser treatments alleviate mild to moderate acne scars but not seriously depressed acne scars, and they don't promote the rebuilding elements necessary to fill in the holes. It's possible that you will spend valuable time and money without seeing the results you deserve.

Treating acne scars appropriately

Fractional Resurfacing is one of the latest advances in laser skin resurfacing. The method is similar to other techniques in the way that the laser heats the dermis and initiates a cause and response. The non-invasive acne scarring therapy produces small treatment areas, penetrating deep into the skin and leaving the nearby 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 alleviated, leaving a majority of the scar or injured area untreated, hence the term 'fractional resurfacing'. Only a portion of the skin is resurfaced at any one time. This facial acne scar treatment allows rapid wound healing and a low possibility of complications. Post skin treatment side effects include a burning or tingling feeling. Other people complain of swelling and hyperpigmentation. Therapies are commonly repeated every 14 days but should be repeated 4 to 5 times for best results, the complication being that 3 treatments 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 frequently to help alleviate severe acne scarring. Small surgical devices are used to efficiently cut out the depressed holes and the wound is then sewn up and stitched. The strange aspect of this acne scar surgery is that you are simply replacing one scar with another. This is not how to alleviate acne scars... however, people believe that the surgical scars are slightly easier to live with.