All About Acne Scar

What Causes Acne Scars?

Just like any wound that leaves a scarred reminder, moderate to sever acne outbreaks that get squeezed or create deep inflamed lessons where the infected sub-dermal tissues spill out are sure to leave skin depressions or valleys due to loss of sub-dermal tissues.

Mild pimples often go away without bothering about them. Some which progress to higher levels of severity are the most bothersome and annoy self-conscious teenagers no end. They can be effectively treated with OTC medication and will dry out over time leaving the skin undamaged.

But this takes time and many teeners resort to picking or squeezing the pimples to even them out. This is one cause of acne scarification as the action causes skin to break with the inflamed content spilling out. It could even out the skin for a start but over time, skin depression results as the tissue loss can’t be recovered. So you get those unsightly ice-pick acne scars.

Acne And Scars

The skin produces new collagen fibers as the body’s natural healing process in closing wounds. Collagen is the fibrous protein that forms the dermal structure over which skin’s outer layer form. The process is no different when it closes up the wounds caused by acne lesions that have broken through skin spilling out the damaged infected sub dermal tissue.

Unfortunately, the healed wound is hardly perfect as it can’t match surrounding tissue in smoothness and flawless character prior to the wound happening. What you get is healed tissue called scar. The collagen can be overproduced to cause raised tissues and this is called hypertrophic or keloid tissue scarring.

At the other end, a deep wound caused by tissue lose can heal with atrophic or depressed scarring and is the more prevalent type of scarring after an acne lesion has erupted. The result is what they call an ice pick or boxcar scarring.

The more the pimple eruptions there are, the more of these depressed scars form and can severely destroy the facial skin to look like a pockmarked lunar surface as seen from a telescope.

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