Acne scars start with the formation of acne. This skin problem occurs when the skin is inundated with more sebum (oil) that is made by the sebaceous glands to moisturize and protect the skin, than it is used to. Factors like hormones and stress can cause an increase in sebum production.

With elevated sebum secretion, the fragile cells that line the follicle can be damaged as the sebum pours through the canals to the surface. Additionally, other factors can make the sebum even more damaging to the skin. These factors include a lack of essential fatty acids, which cause the sebum to become less liquid, and acne causing bacteria.

The change in sebum more easily clogs pores, trapping debris, and causing the bacteria naturally found within the skin to multiply. The body then responds to fight off these antigens and protect the skin with an inflammatory response that can actually further wound the skin. In their over eager efforts to get rid of these foreign bodies, the immune cells destroy healthy tissue that is caught up in the battle. The damage to the dermal layer also changes collagen production, ultimately increasing the visibility of the scar.

Body acne scars come both as hypertrophic and atrophic scars. Hypertrophic and keloid scars refer to those that protrude from the skin, the second not staying confined to the wound's original boundaries. Both of these types of scars are more regularly found on the back or chest. Facial acne tends to cause atrophic scars, those that appear as dents or valleys in the skin. Due to injury caused at the lower skin layers, ice pick, boxcar and rolling scars are bound down, making them difficult types of scars to treat.

Facial Acne Scar Treatment Options

To rid facial acne scars, normal scar procedures won’t cut it. For example, injecting steroids (like it is done in hypertrophic scars) to make them flat will not help. In general, it is difficult to bring depressions up to the normal skin level.

To fill in these hollows, one must regenerate new, healthy skin cells. Facial resurfacing for acne scars is a way to raise your lowered skin. Resurfacing methods differ in the removal of skin but all have the general idea of a controlled removal of skin to encourage healthy skin cell growth.

In laser resurfacing for facial acne scars, non-ablative lasers are used that send short pulses of high energy light over the skin. The light is converted into heat energy that systematically vaporizes one layer after the next of skin. This process does more than just laser face acne scars away. Scar tissue is eliminated and new skin is encouraged to grow, replacing the tissue that was done away with.

For a precise, safe method, laser skin resurfacing acne scars causes little outside damage to surrounding skin. For this reason, it is safe to use and so popular on facial scars.

There are other resurfacing options but are not as effective. Utilizing dermabrasion on acne scars uses the same principle but is a less precise method. Dermabrasion abrades away layers of skin using a high speed rotating instrument. Similarly, chemical peels on facial acne scars removes skin with a chemical solution that makes the skin blister and fall away. Both techniques are applied to the whole face and are quite lengthy in their healing times.

You might also consider facial surgery for acne scars. Subcision is a surgical method that cuts the deeper layers of the skin so that is not bound down. The various punch techniques are used for deep scars, especially ice pick. These techniques that remove the tissue with the contained scar include punch excision, punch excision with skin grafting and punch elevation. Depending on the procedure and type of scar, the suture or replacement of remaining tissue follows.

Dermal fillers are a temporary solution for facial acne scars, raising lowered areas for a period of time, but requiring repeated injections as time goes on.

Finding the best facial acne scar removal regime requires a preventative approach and a good acne treatment. BIOSKINFORTE is a facial skin cream especially made for severe acne that focuses on the root causes. Its base is made of the glycoconjugates collected from Helix Aspersa Müller that heal damage made to the sebum canals, moderates the body's inflammatory response and further supports the immune system at the site of acne lesions.

Furthermore, armed with other natural ingredients, it slows sebum production, exfoliates away facial acne scars and jump-starts the body’s natural skin regeneration processes.