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Can Autologous Blood Be Injected in Acne Scars After Laser Resurfacing to Help Healing?

asked 1 year ago by cosmetic in United Kingdom
Latest answer by Ronald Shelton, MD
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Tags: acne scars, healing, injection

1 answer to Can Autologous Blood Be Injected in Acne Scars After Laser Resurfacing to Help Healing?

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Acne scar treatment and blood

Autologous (your) blood injected into the acne scars is not a standard treatment.  If you're discussing the injection of blood as a means to improve the outcome of scar revision by increasing collagen underneath the scar and helping to lift it up, then there might be a possible contribution that blood has.  This had been done with an old treatment called Fibrel which involved utilizing one's own blood components to help collagen production underneath scars.  If however... more
Ronald Shelton, MD

Manhattan Dermatologist

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