One of the ways of treating acne scars is microdermabrasion. It peels of a thin layer of skin that mostly contains dead cells together with scar cells. Microdermabrasion works well on superficial scars. You may need around 10-12 sessions but the results will be seen after the first several sessions. To make the results better you can drink a lot of water, avoid smoking and alcohol and keep your skin moisturized. You can also try using home microdermabrasion kits to treat some superficial scars.

Home microdermabrasion kits can be used for superficial scars but they do not work on deeper acne scars and neither does professional microdermabrasion. Deeper scars require more aggressive procedures like laser resurfacing and chemical peels.

Acne is a skin disease. Our skin is covered with tiny pores that have sebaceous glands on the bottom. Sebaceous glands produce oily substance that is also called sebum. In a normal situation the sebum goes out of the pore onto the skin surface. When the person has acne sebum and dead skin cells don’t go out of the pore and clog it, causing pimples, whiteheads, blackheads, blemishes, nodular or cystic acne.

Acne usually appears on the skin areas that have the biggest amount of sebaceous glands: the face, chest, neck, back and shoulders. Many people face the problem of acne. Almost everyone has it in some period of his/her life. The studies has shown that about 80% of teenagers and 20% of adults have acne, and many of them also have acne scars.

Scars form on the area where the tissue was injured. When tissue suffers an injury, the body rushes white blood cells and an array of inflammatory molecules, which fight the infection, to the place of injury. However, they can’t repair your skin perfectly and so they leave the scars.
On the acne type skin the injury is caused by inflammatory reaction of our skin to the bacteria, sebum and dead cells in plugged sebaceous follicle.

There are two kinds of acne scars:
1)depressed areas or ice-pick scars
2)raised thickened tissue or keloids

Until now the occurrence and incidence of acne scarring is still not understood well. It may occur from severe inflammatory nodulocystic acne deep in the skin or from more superficial inflamed lesions. Some people can be more prone to scars than others. That’s why the same type of skin treatment methods can work perfectly well for one person and have absolutely no effect on another one.

The best way of treating acne scars is, of course, to prevent them. There are many effective products for treating acne on its early stage. If you don’t take good care of your skin, acne can progress from a mild stage to severe acne when there is the biggest risk of scarring. Try to do everything possible not to your acne progress because acne scarring should be avoided.

Acne may go away with time, when left alone but very often it progresses into a more serious stage. There are treatments that can remove acne scars however some scarring will be permanent. In general, the effects from acne scar treatments are temporary.

If your acne becomes severe consult a doctor or a dermatologist as soon as possible. Effective treatment at this stage can help you not to be left with a lifetime of scarring. Acne spots in the severe stage are much larger and can also be quite painful.