We often use the term Acne marks to refer to acne scars or red acne marks caused by inflammation of acne lesions.

Acne scars can be of various sizes, depth, and tone. There are multiple effective treatments to eliminate acne scars, such as laser treatment for acne scars that allow the tissue to be repaired by ablating the skin in depth by stimulating collagen fibers. 

The number of laser sessions for laser treatment for acne scars will depend on the severity and the use combined with other techniques. It is essential always to carry out a prior evaluation, and specialists must carry out the procedure to avoid later complications.

What is an Acne Scar?

An acne scar is a mark of a wound. The tissue that is part of a scar varies slightly from normal skin in its composition, causing it to act and behave differently than the skin around it. Acne, an inflammatory disease, can produce scars on the face, which appear as a result of active lesions that leave a depression or depression when they heal. Depending on their severity, atrophic acne scars usually cause discomfort and low self-esteem with decreased social interaction. They constitute a significant aesthetic problem in exposed areas, which are large and numerous.

What is an atrophic acne scar?

An atrophic scar is a permanent mark on the skin due to an injury that interrupts the continuity of the skin. It is formed due to the skin’s recovery mechanism, triggered after an inflammatory attack, such as the case of the skin pathology called acne. Atrophic scars are depressed scars in the skin. They result from incomplete collagen and fibrous tissue regeneration during the healing process. They are more common after an infectious process with tissue inflammation. These are the scars most commonly seen in acne, also evident after chickenpox.

Types of Acne Scars

We find different types of acne scars:

• Ice Pick: They are scars similar to small, deep holes.

• Atrophic scars: Atrophic scars are those that look sunken or depressed.

• In Box Car: They are skin depressions of intermediate size and quadrangular shapes with cut edges.

• Rolling: Larger, a consequence of fibrosis in deep planes, they appear as broad depressions with soft edges. Pink atrophic scars: Also known as red acne marks, they are depressed pink scars caused by the vascular component.

• Pink atrophic scars: Also known as red acne marks, they are depressed pink scars caused by the vascular component.

• Hyperpigmented atrophic scars are light brown or brown atrophic scars due to sun exposure or post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.

Laser Treatment For Acne Scars

In general, the more recent the acne scar is, the easier and faster the response to treatment is since it is in the formation process and has yet to be consolidated. No acne scar can be completely restored, but we can improve its appearance by about 60-70%. Each spot is different, so removing acne scars with a laser requires personalized attention.

If the appearance of a scar is bothersome, several treatments can work adequately, improving the appearance. Still, the most important thing is to identify the type of scar we want to treat and choose the appropriate treatment. To do this, we must consider that each spot is unique and often requires the combination of several treatments with laser treatment for acne scars to achieve the maximum therapeutic response.

Remove Acne Scars with Fractional Laser

We have laser treatment for acne scars that offer the most advanced technology to be able to eliminate various layers of the skin in a controlled manner, according to the energy, intensity, size, and shape of the spot of the laser beam selected by the doctor until leaving a level and homogeneous surface.

The fractional laser treatment for acne scars is the treatment of choice in managing acne scars. Fractional technology using CO2 laser is helpful in atrophic scars since the skin damage reaches the deepest levels of the dermis that has lost the regular replacement of collagen, with an absence of collagen and elastin (structural substances of the skin).

The innovative features of the fractional laser with miniaturized impact allow us to adapt the treatment to each patient and eliminate acne marks, depending on the shape and depth of the facial scars caused by acne. The laser incorporates a scanner that divides the impact into thousands of mini columns of energy.

In this way, only minimal portions of skin are reached by the laser impact, leaving “bridges” of healthy and intact skin between them. This technology allows you to modulate the ablative effect (exfoliation) to eliminate that millimeter of skin affected by acne scars and promote faster healing with high collagen production.

In laser treatment for acne scars, the CO2 laser stimulates fibroblasts, which are the ones that make new collagen and elastin, to produce a total or partial “filling” of the scar. The micro-wounds that grow in the skin cause the fibroblasts to work at total capacity to produce new collagen and elastin, taking them to the bottom of the sunken scar and resulting in smoother skin.

Where to go for the best laser treatment for acne scars?

Maple Grove has different laser equipment for treating acne marks. Your choice will depend on the type of acne scar and its severity. Additionally, check us for PDO thread lift treatment to tighten and lift sagging skin on the face and neck.