Scarring-Atrophic Scars
Atrophic Scars: are scars that heal below the normal layer of skin tissue and appear indented, depressed or sunken in the skin. These scars are caused by the destruction of collagen during an inflammatory condition such as acne. Atrophic scars can be further broken down into the following three types:
- Ice-pick scars: The most common type of atrophic acne scars (60–70%). These are narrow, deeper than they are wide, and V-shaped with a sharp edge extending downwards into the deep dermis or subcutaneous tissue.
- Boxcar scars: The next most common type of atrophic scars; wider in size, round or oval shaped depressions with distinct edges.
- Rolling scars: Wide with a sloping edge that can be smoothed out if stretched.
Cystic Acne Scars: This severe type of acne can leave deep depressions in the skin and can sometimes even cause hyperpigmentation.
Other associated skin changes: Post inflammatory skin colour changes, a common side effect of acne lesions, may arise prior to or in conjunction with acne scar formation. These can include erythema, hyperpigmentation, and hypopigmentation. Colour changes associated with acne often improve with time, however this may take months or longer.
- Post inflammatory erythema (PIE) (more common in lighter skin) is thought to relate to microvascular changes and epidermal thinning of the skin during wound healing.
- Post inflammatory hyperpigmentation(more common in darker skin types) occurs due to the deposition of melanin within the keratinocytes of skin that had recent inflammatory damage.
Pico MLA+LED for Scar Renew
Intensive treatment that revitalizes skin, stimulates collagen production targeted scar reduction and removal. Picosecond laser, with its powerful HEXA MLA technology, is at the forefront of skin rejuvenation treatments. It effectively treats conditions such as enlarged pores, stubborn acne scars.
Pico PRISM+Led for Scarring
Combines multi-wavelength targets skin remodeling and scar repairing and treat severe skin concerns with precision and gives you a quicker outcome in one session. Effective treatment for acne scars, chicken pox scars, enlarged pores and stimulates collagen production which helps to improve skin texture.
Skin Needling
This advanced skin-perfecting Collagen induction therapy uses a unique micro-needling process to stimulate and rejuvenate the skin. Treating enlarged pores, congestion, skin texture, pigmentation and acne scarring. The process also increases the absorption of active ingredients.
- Avoid Sun Exposure: Within 10 days before treatment, avoid sun exposure whenever possible and use sunscreen daily. This will help reduce the risk of discoloration.
- Avoid Waxing: Refrain from facial waxing, electrolysis or other depilatories in the week leading up to your treatment.
- Avoid Excess Exfoliation: Stop the use of prescription acne medications, retinol products such as Retin-A, and strong AHA or BHA products at least 3 days prior to your treatment.
- Avoid going to the gym or excessively sweating in the 24 hours prior to your appointment.
- Fitzpatrick IV+ skin types must be prepped on a tyrosinase inhibitor and SPF for a minimum of 2-4 weeks prior to minimise post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. We recommend using Skintitut Even Blend Serum, Retinol or ASAP C serum, A serum, Radiance Serum.
- Apply Numbing cream 1 hour prior to the treatment.
Pico + MLA or Pico PRISM-During treatment: Treatments will involve some mild discomfort. The sensation is rather like the strap of a rubber band on the skin during the treatment. The operator will move the handpiece carefully over the treatment area. You can expect this to be repeated in a number of passes.
Immediately after treatment: Expect the slight redness, swelling and there may be some pin-point bleeding spots over the treated area, especially wrinkles and scarred areas.
During recovery: During the healing process, clients may experience some inflammation or skin irritations like mild redness, itching and rashes. This will take about 5 to 8 days to recover. We recommend intake Antihistamine and continue to apply Laser Aid.
Skin Needling: A small percent of clients find it uncomfortable. Numbing cream is applied on the skins surface in order to make the experience a lot more comfortable and pleasant as possible. It can be described as a fast, light vibration with slight flicks to the skin as the pen moves over the face.
- No makeup for 48 hours.
- No exfoliation for at least 7 days.
- Avoid heat, sun exposure, steaming, sauna, excessive heat for about 7 days.
- Apply Laser Aid and broad-spectrum sunscreen SPF 50+ every day. If your skin feels dry and thigh apply Repair Balm after 48 hours.
- Avoid picking, peeling, and touching the skin after the treatment. As this can cause scarring and damage to the skin
- Client can take Antihistamine medication if rashes occur
POST-CARE PRODUCTS SKIN NEEDLING
- Gentle Cleanser
- Rejuvenate 15 serum
- Repair balm ( after 48 hours)
How does it work? Advanced skin perfecting treatment that delivers the highest calibration of collagen therapy. A fine, electronic motor in Microneedling Pen enables the needles to move quickly in and out of the skin, creating micro channels and stimulating the body’s natural collagen production. This process also dramatically increases the absorption of topical treatments and active ingredients. This powerhouse treatment can help you tackle scarring, stretchmarks, acne, black heads, open pores, fine lines, hyperpigmentation and more. Fast, effective, and non-surgical, micro needling can help you unlock radiant skin.
Benefits:
- Kickstarts collagen for anti-ageing
- Exfoliates to refine skin texture.
- Improves topical product absorption.
- Regulates pigmentation.
- Reduced appearances of pores, scar tissue and stretch marks.
- Improvement of fine lines and wrinkles
Optimize your results with a course of 4-6 treatments every month.
Recommend Add-on:
- Yellow LED
- Hydrojelly™ Mask
Pico MLA Rejuvenation & wrinkle treatment uses a powerful HEXA MLA (Micro Lens Array) handpiece, a fractional system with 15 times more energy density in the centre of each dot. This intensive treatment includes 3 steps and 3 different wavelengths of laser + LED light therapy that revitalizes ageing & acne scarred skin, stimulates collagen production, improves skin elasticity in the first step of the laser. We will then focus on your main concern such as open pores, scars and skin texture in the second step of laser and the third step is healing yellow LED light Therapy.
- Treatment time: 1 hour
- Number of session's: 6-8
- Interval: 4-6 weeks
- Prep care: stop using active ingredients for 2 days. Apply numbing cream 1 hour.
- Post care: Apply Laser Aid and broad-spectrum sunscreen SPF 50+ every day. If your skin feels dry and thigh apply Repair Balm after 48 hours. Avoid picking, peeling, and touching the skin after the treatment. As this can cause scarring and damage to the skin. Client can take Antihistamine medication if rashes & itching occur.
- Cost: Pico MLA $399 (please check the promotional price on website)
Pico Prism For Anti Ageing treatment combines different handpieces including Pico Laser + MLA + LED allows us to treat a wide range of skin concerns with 5 steps of laser. This signature protocol is intense and effective, giving our customers a gold standard solution to treat all their ageing, pigmentation, and scarring concerns in one session. Uses a powerful HEXA MLA (Micro Lens Array) handpiece, a fractional system with 15 times more energy density in the centre of each dot.
- Step1 Pico laser Toning (focused on dermis layer)
- Step2 Spot treatment for Pigmentation (focused on epidermis layer)
- Step3 Spot treatment using MLA (focused on wrinkles)
- Step4 Full face MLA skin rejuvenation and texture
- Step 5 LED light therapy (healing)
- Treatment time: 1 hour
- Number of session's: 2-4
- Interval: 4-6 weeks
- Prep care: stop using active ingredients for 2 days. Apply numbing cream 1 hour.
- Post care: Apply Laser Aid and broad-spectrum sunscreen SPF 50+ every day. If your skin feels dry and thigh apply Repair Balm after 48 hours. Avoid picking, peeling, and touching the skin after the treatment. As this can cause scarring and damage to the skin. Client can take Antihistamine medication if rashes & itching occur.
- Cost: Pico PRISM $499 (please check the promotional price on website)
More inflamed acne lesions are more likely to scar. Timely appropriate treatment for acne during the active phase can reduce the incidence and severity of acne scarring and its associated psychosocial impacts.
The formation of scars is a normal reaction of the skin in response to inflammation or injury. Further injury such as ‘picking’ at active acne lesions can also increase the likelihood of developing acne scars. The majority of acne scars result from an overall inflammatory response causing net destruction of collagen fibres in the dermis in an atrophic scar. Underlying fibrosis can also occur. The consequence of a net gain of aberrant production of collagen in turn causes hypertrophic or keloid-type acne scars.
Unfortunately, we cannot treat Keloid & Hypertrophic Scars at Skincare Laser Clinic.
Keloid Scars: Like hypertrophic scars, keloid scars rise above skin level however keloid scars extend beyond the injury site and do not regress over time. Keloid scars are also formed due to an overproduction of collagen while the skin is healing. Often keloid scars appear red to purple in colour and are harder to treat.
Hypertrophic scars: are scars that heal above the normal layer of skin tissue and appear thicker, raised and can vary in colour from pink to red. Hypertrophic scars do not extend beyond the boundaries of the injury site and may regress over time and with treatment. Hypertrophic scars are caused by abnormal production of extra collagen at the injury site during the healing phase.