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When it comes to acne treatments and acne scars healing, there are two main options that a person could choose: the one involving medication, which will naturally
take more time, or the one related to surgery, which is fast, tempting, handy regardless the acne's causes
and yet with lots of risks that people often do not consider.
So this would be about laser interventions, as one of the latest medical procedures, with various functionalities, including in acne treatments. Most patients that have
been struggling for years to overcome this unpleasant skin affection are so fascinated by the promising results that can be obtained in short time through this method, that
they do not even pay attention to all the potential risks which, by the way, are as real as possible. So let us take all one at a time.
On the most basic level, things that might go wrong can be summed up to irritations. The skin will naturally be assaulted in order to tear apart all the dead skin cells,
but for this to happen, some healthy cells will also be affected. A red skin, eventually crusty, is not a big deal, unless it also gives you sores. But in addition to this,
some may manifest allergic reactions to the treatment, in which case pain will be worse and it will require certain medication for getting over it.
But after allergies,
infections are even more dangerous and things do not stop here. Depending on your skin sensitivity and on how fast and for how long you will expose your skin to the
sun rays after the laser surgery, you can even experience hypopigmentation or hyperpigmentation, meaning that the epidermis will suffer from a lightening or a darkening
effect.
But all of the above are nothing in comparison with what could happen to you if you rely on the help of an inexperienced plastic surgeon. So taking all the necessary
time for identifying the most competent doctor is mandatory. Laser basically destroys the layers of cells that encounters, depending on the exposure time given.
Someone not too handy might cause you severe skin burns when making the laser to go deeper than the scar tissue into the healthy skin layer.
And for things to be even worse here is the flash news: even laser procedures especially initiated for healing
acne scars can have as side effects… face scars. It is true that, according to statistics, this happens to only
two percent of all the patients, but you can never know whether you are going to be among them or not. As expected, such results may occur either because of an inappropriate
surgical procedure or because of the post operative inappropriate care.
Taking your vitamins and eating the healthiest foods will have even less chances to help you heal your skin after a bad laser procedure than they had if you would have
used them before.
So we think it is fare to conclude that the shortest and fastest path is not always the safest one. Before resorting to such gestures, you might want to try some less
invasive approaches, especially if it is not about severe acne, like the home remedies or over the
counter acne treatments .
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