Acne scar treatments

You must see a physician to evaluate you because every acne scar is different. Some require more aggressive laser treatments. It is rare that a chemical peel can improve acne scars unless it is a deep chemical peel, but that is rarely done these days. A medium depth chemical peel with dry ice first on the scars and then the chemical peel, as described by Dr. Harold Brody, Georgia, can effect an improvement, but many doctors are not trained in this technique. Fraxel resurfacing can help acne scars provided that they are not of the “ice pick” type. Laser hair removal would be better tolerated when done near (not the same day) the time of Fraxel, but it wouldn’t be done close to the time of a medium depth chemical peel.