Dr. Samantha Ellis
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Apr
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It will fade no matter what you do, but wearing consistent sunscreen is going to be really helpful.
Because then our cells have the time and energy to repair.
I love it.
So yes, you want to protect your skin from the sun.
You also can do things to help speed up cell turnover, whether that's using your tretinoin, which we use as an acne treatment, but also an acne scar treatment, or even ingredients like azelaic acid that speed up that skin cell turnover that help with brown spots.
That can be really helpful.
But when you have true textural scarring, which is what I think of as true scarring, where you get in bad lighting and you think,
not my best angle.
That typically involves in-office treatments.
And depending on what someone's budget is, how many sessions they want to do, it kind of depends.
But we usually do some combination of either microneedling or more aggressive laser resurfacing.
And the thing with acne scars is it can take many, many sessions to reduce them.
And the goal usually is a 50% reduction in scarring.
It's not to have complete clearance, which is why I'm such a proponent of treating acne
more aggressively when someone is younger or at a point in their life when their acne is more severe and we're just starting to see scarring because I cannot tell you how many adults that come in in their 30s and 40s and they're like, why didn't I just treat my acne when I was younger?
A lot of times when someone comes in and they have a lot of active breakouts, we're thinking about aggressive treatment in the beginning and then we can taper off things.
So it's sort of like a kitchen sink approach in the beginning to get the inflammation down and to just stop new breakouts and then we can start tapering off things.
So just because someone starts with maybe a more intense routine
They don't have to stay there, but it really helps just like quiet everything down so that they don't get this permanent scarring that can be so stigmatizing as they get older and causes a lot of people to be unnecessarily self-conscious.
Can we pop our pimples?
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