Dermabrasion For Acne Scar Removal

Dermabrasion has been around for decades in its usage to remove superficial acne scars. Would you be shocked if I told you that initially sandpaper was used to remove a thin layer of our unsightly skin and then the skin is left to grow by itself to replace the removed skin ?

Luckily, nowadays, electrical machines that have a rapidly rotating wire brush wheels are used in placed on the sandpaper. Dermabrasion is particularly suitable to minimize the appearance of small and shallow acne scars.

If it is used on ice-pick scars and deeply depressed scars, the end result after the dermabrasion process might make your skin look worse as it exposes the deeper part of the acne scars which may be more wide in scar formation.Therefore, dermabrasion won't be used on hypertrophic scars.

Dermabrasion process is initiated by a qualified dermatologist with anesthetizing the acne sufferer's skin with a spray to make it numb. A sedative may also be used to make one drowsy so as to make the scar tissue removal process less painful.

In contrast to dermabrasion, aluminium oxide crystals are being used instead of a rapidly spinning brush in microdermabrasion. These aluminium oxide crystals are blasted to the scarred skin and then vacuumed away together with the scar tissues .

However, microdermabrasion is only effective in removing fine lines and age spots and not effective at all for even very mild acne scar spots as a very mild exfoliation process takes place here.

For darker skin acne sufferers who suffer mild acne scar condition, you might run the risk of suffering big changes in your skin pigmentation color. Due to this reason, it is wiser to opt for laser scar removal process even though it might be more expensive to do so. We surely don't want our skin to look worse than before the scar removal process, do we?