Acne scars are usually caused due to the blemishes being inflamed as a result of skin pores having dead skin, excess oil and various bacteria. As the pore swells, it causes a break in the wall of the follicle, this forms lesions or scars that are quite minor, and they do heal quickly. Deeper breaks in the wall pore allow infected material to move into the surrounding tissue, and create deeper lesions or scars. The skin does attempt to repair this skin damage by the formation of new collagen. But, these repairs do not seem the same as the original skin.

Various kinds of acne scars include –

• Box car acne scars
• Ice pick acne scars
• Rolling, atrophic, and depressed acne scars
• Mixed acne scars
• Red acne scars
• Keloid scars

Hypertrophic or Keloid scarring

Atrophic Scars

• Icepick scars are smaller in size, but do form holes in the skin
• Boxcar scars are depressed areas that are round or oval in shape with angled sides
• Soft tissue fillers
• Laser resurfacing
• Pulsed light lasers
• Dermabrasion
• Chemical Peeling
• Needling or rolling
• Blackheads
• Whiteheads
• Papules (Red Tender bumps)
• Pimples
• Solid and painful lumps beneath the surface
• Pus-filled lumps beneath the surface
• Bacteria
• Surplus oil production
• Hormone imbalance
• Clogging of hair follicles with bacteria and dead skin

Out of the above, there are two types of acne scars viz.

When the body produces too much collagen for acne wounds to heal, it forms a bump or

raised tissue on the surface of the skin.

These scars are formed when there is tissue loss in the skin. Atrophic scars can be classified

into two type’s viz. Icepick and Boxcar.

Best treatments for acne scars

The symptoms of acne depending on the severity of the condition include –

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