Hi,
Moderate acne scars can be improved and smoothened to a significant extent - improvement by a few grades on the acne severity score or up to 80% improvement.
Acne scar treatments start with diagnosis of your scar type, skin type and ability to handle down-time (recovery time).
Your acne scar types are a mix of ice-pick scars, rolling acne scars and box car acne scars.
The most suitable treatments to give you good results are:
1. Subcision with collagen stimulating fillers - To release tethered (held down) scars and to stimulate collagen production
2. Fractional Laser resurfacing (eg CO2/Erbium fractional lasers like Edge Fractional CO2 lasers)
3. RF micro-needling (eg Infini, Intracel)
Several treatment sessions are required and I use a combination of acne scar treatments in each session to give faster results.
Each of these treatments works synergistically.
I suggest a face to face consult with a doctor who focuses on acne scars treatment for an accurate treatment plan.
Side note: you might want to go easy on facial extractions as aggressive facial extractions might cause scars or worsen facial acne scars!
Hope this helps!
Warmest regards,
Dr Justin Boey
