The word surgery alone is scary. Having major surgery in order to alleviate acne scarring is the last alternative for people affected 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. Do you feel so self conscious walking around in public with imperfections that you feel the need to endure a painful surgery to heal them?

There are extremely few acne scar solutions on the market that heal the worst type of scarring, the ice pick acne scar. Because such scars appear to be made by someone stabbing your skin with a sharp instrument, they are usually the most psychologically harmful scars to deal with. The reason they don't react to common scar treatments is because they need an ingredient that stimulates the formation of collagen and elastin in the skin.

Scar removal is becoming more and more possible with the latest discoveries in technology. Laser scar removal is now very common for patients with post inflammatory scarring and redness. Laser sessions improve mild to moderate acne scars but not highly depressed acne scars, and they do not stimulate 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 more recent advances 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 treatment benefits small treatment areas, permeating deep into the skin and leaving the surrounding skin untouched and intact. This 'fractional' treatment 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 damaged skin untreated, hence the name 'fractional resurfacing'. Only a portion of the skin is resurfaced at any one time. This facial acne scar treatment allows quick injury healing and a low possibility of complications. Post skin treatment secondary effects include a burning or tingling feeling. Other patients complain of swelling and hyperpigmentation. Treatments are usually repeated every 14 days but should be repeated 4 to 5 times for best results, the complication being that 3 treatments cost almost 1,000 dollars and each one after that is about $500.

There is an acne scar cure called 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 strange 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.