How we approach acne & scars
Acne is the most common reason people see a dermatologist, and also the condition most often self-treated for too long. By the time many patients arrive, the acne has been managed with borrowed prescriptions, steroid creams or salon facials, and the marks left behind are as distressing as the breakouts themselves.
The clinical approach is sequential. Grade the acne. Identify what is driving it. Control the active lesions with treatment that suits your skin, not a fixed protocol. Only then treat the scarring, because resurfacing inflamed skin gives poor results and risks new marks.
Scar treatment itself is rarely a single procedure. Tethered rolling scars need release, narrow ice-pick scars respond to CROSS, and texture improves with microneedling, MNRF or fractional laser. A realistic plan combines them across sessions and says clearly which scars will improve most.
What the first consultation involves
Your skin is examined and the acne graded, your current products and medicines are reviewed, and photographs are taken with your consent so progress can be compared at each visit.