| The phrase acne laser skin
treatment does not refer to a single type of treatment.
There are many types of laser
treatment for acne scars. In all cases, physicians
have found that touching the skin with a particular laser
can cause the skin to undergo marked regeneration. For
that reason, laser treatment for acne has become a very
popular avenue for people and is a substantial new acne
treatment in the world of Dermatology.
The categorization of acne laser skin treatment focuses
on the nature of the changes created by the laser, and
the nature of the resulting skin regeneration. In some
cases, this new acne treatment requires the use of an
added element.
When performing ablative fractional resurfacing, the
physician uses both a laser and carbon dioxide The laser
cuts into the epidermis and the high dermis. The cuts
cause the desired skin regeneration. However, those
cuts produce swelling, crusting and oozing. Full recovery
from ablative fractional resurfacing can take one to
two weeks.
Because patients who undergo the above procedure must
wait for their skin to heal, physicians have developed
an alternative type of fractional resurfacing called
photothermolysis. The recent availability of equipment
for photothermolysis has provided doctors with new acne
laser treatment avenues.
During photothermolysis, the physician uses the laser
to put very small holes in the skin. Each hole is approximately
100 micrometers in diameter and about 300 micrometers
deep. Specialists call these tiny holes “microscopic
treatment zones.”
How can a hole be a treatment zone? Each tiny wound
created by the laser is surrounded by healthy skin tissue.
Therefore, the wounded skin is adjacent to healthy skin,
allowing it to heal quickly and healthfully.
Physicians hail this new acne treatment in the field
of acne laser skin treatment. Still, medical researchers
need to deal with some unanswered questions in regards
to acne
removal with a laser beam. Physicians are still
unsure as to what the optimal amount of 'passes' with
the laser is to get the best results. Physicians also
want to know how many treatments an acne patient should
receive, and how much time should transpire between
each laser treatment for acne.
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