The word surgery alone is scary. Having major surgery in order to alleviate acne scarring is the last option for people afflicted by flawed tissues and ice pick acne scars.

You should ask yourself- how stressed and troubled are you by your acne scars? If you care about your skin, acne scarring is obviously going to bother you. Do you feel so self conscious walking around in the street with blemishes that you feel the need to undergo a painful surgery to cure them?

There are not many acne scar treatments on the market that cure the worst type of scarring, the ice pick acne scar. Because such scars appear to be formed by someone stabbing your skin with a sharp instrument, they are usually the most psychologically painful scars to deal with. The reason they don't respond to common scar treatments is because they need an ingredient that promotes the formation of collagen and elastin in the skin.

Scar removal is becoming more and more possible with recent discoveries in technology. Laser scar removal is now very common for people with post inflammatory scarring and redness. Laser treatments improve mild to moderate acne scars but not seriously depressed acne scars, and they don't stimulate the rebuilding elements necessary to fill in the holes. It's possible that you will spend valuable time and money without seeing the results you deserve.

Acne scarring treatment options

Fractional Resurfacing is one of the more recent discoveries in laser skin resurfacing. The method is similar to other techniques in the way that the laser heats the skin and starts a cause and response. The non-invasive acne scarring therapy produces small treatment areas, permeating deep into the skin and leaving the surrounding skin untouched and intact. This 'fractional' therapy allows the skin to cure much faster using the body's natural healing process to create new, healthy, tighter tissue.

Anywhere from 13 to 20% of the area is alleviated, leaving a majority of the scar or injured skin untreated, hence the term 'fractional resurfacing'. Only a portion of the skin is resurfaced at any one time. This facial acne scar treatment allows rapid wound healing and a low chance of complications. Post skin treatment secondary effects include a burning or tingling sensation. Other people complain of swelling and hyperpigmentation. Treatments are usually repeated every 14 days but must be repeated 4 to 5 times for best results, the complication being that 3 treatments cost about 1,000 dollars and each one after that is about $500.

There is an acne scar cure named punch excision that is used frequently to help alleviate severe acne scarring. Small surgical devices are used to effectively cut out the depressed holes and the wound is then sewn up and stitched. The curious outcome of this acne scar surgery is that you are simply replacing one scar with another. This is not how to alleviate acne scars... however, people believe that the surgical scars are slightly easier to live with.