I Have Both Atrophic and Hypertrophic Acne Scars. What Can I Do?

From the photos that you have provided, it appears that you have quite fair skin and your inflammatory acne has resolved. My assessment of your pictures leads me to believe that you would do well with fractional C02 treatments (ablative fractional resurfacing). Treating acne scarring is certainly a process and a single treatment with fractional C02 will not be sufficient. That said, I believe that a series of 3-5 treatments will absolutely improve your scarring. Each... more

Acne acts on all layers of the skin through the hair follicles that reach deep into the skin and beyond. You need a multilayered approach. We use co2 resurfacing with this unique approach. fractional co2 resurfacing and fraxel will get minimal improvements by themselves. see video

Fractional CO2 lasers are an aggressive form of treatment that is safest on fair skinned individuals. It works by creating numerous columns of laser energy in the skin. This vaporizes the tissue and induces the formation of new collagen fibers which override the collagen in the acne scars. Fraxel Repair is a fractional CO2 laser. Many patients with your skin type have experienced very positive results with this system, which often requires multiple treatments. more