The word surgery alone is scary. Having major surgery in order to alleviate acne scars is the last option for people affected by damaged tissues and ice pick acne scars.

The issue becomes- how stressed and bothered are you by your acne scars? If you love your skin, acne scars are obviously going to bother you. Are you getting to the point where you feel so uncomfortable walking around in public with blemishes that you feel the desire to endure a painful surgery to heal them?

There are extremely few acne scar treatments available that heal the worst form of scarring, the ice pick acne scar. Since these scars look like they were made by someone stabbing your face with a sharp instrument, they are commonly the most psychologically harmful scars to deal with. The reason they don't respond to common scar treatments is because they require an ingredient that promotes the development of collagen and elastin in the skin.

Scar removal is turning more and more possible with the latest discoveries in technology. Laser scar removal is now quite common for people with post inflammatory scarring and redness. Laser treatments alleviate mild to moderate acne scars but not highly depressed acne scars, and they don't promote the rebuilding elements needed to fill in the holes. You will throw away thousands of dollars on an acne scar solution that won't help you.

Acne scarring treatment options

Fractional Resurfacing is one of the latest discoveries in laser skin resurfacing. The method is similar to other technologies in the way that the laser heats the dermis and starts a cause and response. The non-invasive acne scarring therapy produces small treatment areas, permeating deep into the skin and leaving the surrounding skin untouched and intact. This 'fractional' therapy allows the skin to heal much faster using the body's natural healing process 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 term 'fractional resurfacing'. Only a portion of the skin is resurfaced at any one time. This facial acne scar treatment allows rapid injury healing and a low chance of complications. Post skin treatment secondary effects include a burning or tingling feeling. Other people complain of swelling and hyperpigmentation. Treatments are commonly repeated every 14 days but must be repeated 4 to 5 times for best results, the problem being that 3 therapies 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 devices are used to efficiently cut out the depressed holes and the injury is then sewn up and stitched. The strange outcome 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.