What we need to know about Acne laser treatment

There was a time when women stricken with acne were afraid of exposing their faces to light lest the blemishes of present and past acne scars be revealed.
In a twist of fate, “light” specifically, laser light has come to be one of the newer methods employed in the treatment of atrophic acne and the removal of scars.
Lasers used in treatments are described as “emitting laser pulses” to create measured damage to the second layer of acne-scarred skin in order to induce the body’s formation of new collagen cells that will fill in the space of atrophic scars (”Lasers Get under the,” 2005, p. 35)
Laser Resurfacing or “Lasering” was actually discovered by accident, says Richard Felten, a senior reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “In the course of treating acne scars with a laser, surgeons noticed that after resurfacing the skin around the scar to make the scar less visible, small adjacent wrinkles were greatly diminished.”(Greeley, 2000, p. 34)
The process of laser resurfacing involves a controlled “burning” procedure where a laser is used to “vaporize” top layers of facial skin. This eliminates wrinkles and lines caused by sun damage and facial expressions as well as remove acne scars. Burning […]

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