Laser Treatment Worth It For Acne And Scars

Laser treatments are the fastest way to deal with scars and hyper pigmentation left behind when acne heals, but can also be beneficial for inflammatory acne. However, it’s not known to be particularly helpful for noninflammatory comedonal acne. The primary benefit of laser therapy, as well as the primary drawback of laser therapy, is that is has very precise effects.

Acne happens when pores in the skin fill up with dead skin cells, oil and bacteria. They then eventually become inflamed and burst. When this happens deep within the skin, all that infected gunk spreads among the deeper tissues, resulting in even bigger lesions.

Lasers produce intense monochromatic light, light that is limited to a very a narrow band of wavelengths. This light has no effect on some substances, and high-intensity effects on others. One setting might heat hemoglobin but have no effect on neighboring skin cells. Another setting might “melt” the melanin that causes deep pigmentation on the skin. A third might vaporize tattoo ink. Dermatologists use lasers to destroy specific substances at specific depths in the skin.

The primary effects of laser light in skin resurfacing are photothermal, heating a particular substance in the skin. The process of using laser to remove blemishes in the skin is known as photothermolysis, the breakdown of selected tissues in the skin. Continuous laser light would destroy tissues surrounding the target as the target tissue heated, so laser skin treatment is usually done with pulsed lasers.

Another problem in laser treatment of black and dark brown skin is that darker skin tends to form tough scars known as keloids. These disfigurements require more treatment than ordinary acne scars, running greater risk of damage to the skin. About 1 in 6 people with black skin and acne will develop keloids that cannot be treated with laser, compared to about in in 20 people with white or Asian skin and acne.

Laser treatment is not the final answer for acne. It is possible that if you express the expectation that laser treatment will remove 100% of your acne, chances are that your dermatologist will reject you as a patient for this procedure because of unrealistic expectations. Laser acne treatments improve the skin, but they never perfect it.

Ree Age has a specialists team where our dermatologists are having 25+ years of experience in the relevant field; supportive team will assist you to get desired results.

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