Treating Acne Scars on Celebrities

David Hansen, MD answers: How do stars like Brad Pitt get rid of their acne scars?

I have seen pictures of Brad Pitt and other actors in films with acne scars. How did they get rid of them? Are they getting fillers or some kind of treatments that we are not shown? I was just wondering what you guys as professionals thought. Thanks. I can't believe even Brad Pitt had bad acne scars.


David Hansen, MD
12 months ago

Acne scars are treated with a whole host of different procedures. If they are ice pick scars, then we punch graft them, which means we take a piece of their skin from behind their ear and place it in the hole then dermabrade or sand over it to allow it to blend in ($350/scar).

Some sharp-edged, deep scars, we just excise and suture up ($150-200/scar). Some scars that are broad and shallow we fill in with fillers like collagen$450/syringe), Juvaderm, restylane, elevess($550/syr), Radiesse ($850/syr) or Artefill($1250/syr).

Some irregular deep scars are subcised which means we cut under them to free up the scar and then put a filler in the tunnel created. Some scars are dermabraded or sanded ($250/scar or $3500 for the cheeks and chin) to make them blend away into the surrounding skin.

Some discolorations of the skin can be lasered or chemically peeled ($750-1000) to blend them away nicely. Most people need a combination of the above procedures and also may need a few times.

All these can be done under just local anesthesia and you drive yourself home afterwards in most cases. As you can see there are a lot of things that anyone can get done for acne scarring which really helps.

Good Luck

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