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Some of the punch excisions might be covered by insurance. Check with your insurance provider. If not it should cost about $250 to $750 per punch excision.In terms of fillers, Sculptra is the best filler for acne scarring. Make sure you go to someone who does a lot of it and is really good at it. Also remember to massage aggressively for one week after the injections.Regards
Punch excision vs punch grafts are different procedures and different physicians charge differently related to the complexity of the type of scarring. Punch excisions involve the removal of a scar and stitching it closed. Punch eleveation loosens the scars and brings them higher in the skin to meet the surrounding skin surface but then you end up with a persistent different texture of the skin, e.g. scar tissue. Punch grafts remove the scar and replace it with a very small skin graft from behind the ear. Many of these procedures involve resurfacing thereafter to improve the appearance. You need to see a physician who is skilled in doing this and during the consultation the best plan for treatment of your skin will be determined and the cost can be quoted to you at that time depending on what is decided as to the best procedure(s).
There really is very limited down time involved with punch excision of acne scars. Very fine sutures are used and can be covered with a dressing to make them maintenance-free over the first 5-7 days. At that point, they should be well healed and normal activities could be resumed. After any...
TCA CROSS, which I have been performing for nearly 25 years, has a proven track record for both safety and efficacy in all skin types for treating ice pick scars and dilated pores and piercing holes. Unlike punch excision or surgical excision, which risks the subsequent development of stretch...
Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...
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