Persistent acne scars can leave you feeling defeated, especially if you’ve made every effort to clear your active breakouts. But you don’t have to navigate the healing process alone! The experts at Shea Aesthetic Clinic offer personalized acne scar treatment in Oak Ridge, so you can tackle lingering hyperpigmentation and texture with a physician-led team in your corner.
Ready to discuss your treatment options? Schedule an initial consultation to provide some insight into your acne experience and skin goals.
If you want to dive into details about Shea’s minimally invasive acne scar treatment options, you’re in the right place.
Why Does Acne Leave Behind Scars?
Acne scars are typically the result of your skin’s healing process. As your body recovers from deep cysts or pustules, it will try to repair the skin with new collagen. However, when it produces too much or too little collagen, it can lead to raised (hypertrophic) or indented (atrophic) scarring.
Your skin is doing its very best to protect you; sometimes, you just have to help it out a little!
How Does Shea Address Acne Scars?
At Shea Aesthetic Clinic, we offer several treatments to address the various types of acne scars. Explore and customize your options for acne scar treatment in Oak Ridge!
Chemical Peels
The goal of any facial peel is to gently exfoliate the top layer of your skin using curated chemical solutions. This exfoliation helps your body shed dead skin cells, promoting new collagen production and cellular turnover.
Depending on the depth of your scars, our licensed medical aesthetician, Eva, might recommend any of our highly rated chemical peels, including the popular Platinum TSA Peel. We tailor each peel’s mixture to best treat your individual skin goals.
Chemical peels are especially effective for acne scar treatment when used in conjunction with microneedling procedures, which penetrate the skin with small microinjuries and prompt the body’s natural healing process to begin. This process stimulates more collagen and elastin production to heal and clear your skin.
Laser Skin Resurfacing
Dr. Bass and his team use the LaseMD Ultra for targeted skin resurfacing. This gentle laser removes dead skin cells and stimulates collagen production. This simultaneous exfoliation and jump-start of the healing process combats uneven skin tone, texture, and pigmentation to reveal smoother skin.
Laser skin resurfacing also works well in tandem with radiofrequency (RF) microneedling. These two treatments work together to improve skin texture and elasticity both on the surface and in the deeper layers of the dermis.
Microneedling & RF Energy
Devices like Morpheus8 use dual-action microneedling and radiofrequency (RF) technology to jumpstart the body’s healing process and heal acne scarring.
Morpheus8 penetrates the skin with precise microneedles to increase blood flow to the area. As the device creates controlled microinjuries in the skin, it channels RF energy into the tissue to tighten existing collagen fibers and encourage the development of new collagen and elastin. This process breaks up your scar tissue and allows new tissue to grow in its place.
Still Experiencing Flare-Ups?
You’re not alone! Many adults struggle with breakouts in spite of skincare routines and scar treatment. Anything from stress to diet to hormones can lead to clogged pores.
Luckily, we have many solutions at Shea Aesthetic Clinic! While it is not safe to microneedle over active breakouts, we offer a host of products and procedures—from facials to medical-grade skincare products to holistic anti-acne vitamins—to help get your skin back on the right track.
Achieve Clearer Skin at Shea Aesthetic Clinic
Your acne scars might feel like they’re here to stay, but our nonsurgical scar treatments can dramatically improve your skin pigmentation, tone, and texture through exfoliation and renewal. With Shea Aesthetic Clinic, your dream skin is within reach!
Contact the Shea team to begin mapping out your acne scar treatment in Oak Ridge.
As you embark on your healing journey, consider keeping your complexion radiant with our other skin rejuvenation techniques. And if you’re enjoying smooth skin following an exfoliation treatment, laser hair removal can keep the silky-smooth feeling going!
