Looking for ways to reconstruct your appearance after fighting acne can seem like a lonely battle. There are a lot of
products on the market promising to stop acne and some are effective while many don’t work as expected. There aren’t many ways to get rid of the scars caused by acne. A cure for those “discolored pits no makeup can truly cover” doesn’t come in a bottle and that’s why finding out whether acne laser treatment can help is important.
Acne is caused when the oil glands in the skin break open. During adolescence the oil glands in the skin start making an oily substance called sebum. This is discharged under the skin surface, but occasionally the oil gland breaks spilling the sebum under the skin. The skin tissues become irritated and redness and swelling result. This is known to one and all as a pimple. At the same time, the oil glands might become clogged with dirt creating a blackhead. This isn’t the time when acne laser treatment would work best.
Acne usually starts in adolescence and peaks as you enter your twenties. Diet and stress can be factors of acne, but really the way oil glands act in the skin is a matter of genes and your family history. There are many products that keep the skin clean so you have fewer black heads, but really there’s no sure cure for acne. Where acne laser treatment comes in is dealing with the aftermath of this condition.
Once the inflammation of the pimple has subsided the tissue may not fully repair and the area will take on a pitted appearance leaving pimple scars. Sometimes the pit fills in within seven to eight months and the redness subsides even sooner. In the case of permanent scarring the redness might subside, but the pit remains or both redness and pitting become permanent.
Here is where acne laser treatment can help.
Acne laser treatment or fractional laser resurfacing uses microscopic pulses of light to break down the skin and after several treatments the acne scars will begin to soften as the body regenerates the areas of where the micro-thermal wounding. Acne laser treatment can also include laser resurfacing is used to treat the areas of discoloration closer to the surface.