Acne and Acne Scarring

Acne Scarring begins in adolescence but can leave life long scars, causing anxiety and self consciousness. Our clinic provides a multimodal approach to acne and acne scarring, from gaining control of acne and congestion, to addressing the underling causes and treating long term facial and body scars, providing significant improvement to texture, colour, complexion and self esteem.

Acne Control Before scars can be addressed, acne must firstly be managed with dermal and medical therapy such as prescription retinols, a short course of antibiotics or in severe cases with an oral Vitamin A medication (Isotretinoin). If you suffer from hormonal acne, we may arrange hormonal and metabolic screening to exclude underlying causes of acne, as well as lifestyle and hormonal interventions to help with long term control. If you have cysts, body acne or your acne has not improved with standard medical therapy after 3 months, would will arraneg referral to a dermatologist to consider the oral medication - the best treatment for scarring is prevention

12 Week Acne Program Our Thrive 12 week Acne Program aims to get control of acne, and includes a Dermal Clinician consultation, skin analysis, home care for 12 weeks a a series of 6 treatment combining lasers, peels and light therapy, customised to your unique concerns.

Dermal therapy treatments for acne are directed towards improving the sebaceous function of the skin, improving skin barrier, reducing inflammation and stimulating repair pathways to improve the healing response. This may involve HydraFacial or peels to restore healthy skin function, a series of microneedling sessions with Exosomes or Rejuran injection to repair the skin and/or vascular or Q switch lasers to reduce red or brown pigmentation

Medical Consultation Patients with moderate or severe acne will be referred to one of our doctors for assessment and consideration of medical therapy. There is also the option to pursue other a functional medicine approach to acne with Dr Bhatti who offers The Gut Ecology and Metabolic Modulation (GEMM) protocol, which utilises diet and natural therapies to improve gut health and address inflammatory pathways. This is ideal for patients wanting to avoid medications or who have failed medical therapy.

PRP, Exosomes & Rejuran polynucleotides are new regenerative medical therapies that repair skin and reduce inflammation via upregulation of repair pathways in the skin, and offer an additional solution to control acne and repair skin. They can be added onto medical therapies or laser to reduce inflammation and promote wound healing, with the added benefit of reducing downtime post laser or microneedling.

Acne Scarring Once acne has been controlled, our medical team will use a we use a combination approach to improve Acne scarring using techniques such as a subscision or punch removal of reduced deep tethered or ice pick scars . Ultraclear ablative laser is used to resurface and smooth the skin.

Ultraclear Cold Fibre Laser offers innovative technology, allowing us to treat scarring with powerful resurfacing and remodelling modes, and the added benefit of limited discomfort and downtime compared to other ablative lasers like CO2. Due to it’s ability to deliver very fast pulses of energy to the skin, Ultraclear Laser can safely treat darker skin types such as Asian, Indian or Mediterranean skin, with a significantly reduced risk of post inflammation.

If you are concerned with acne scarring, we would advise you to book a consultation with our doctors and dermal therapists to discuss your concerns as early as you can, as early intervention leads to faster resolution of scarring and better clinical outcomes.

Experience the gold standard in holistic acne scarring treatment protocols delivered by our team at Thrive. We understand the stress, anxiety and impact that acne and scarring can have on our patients, and we have a solution for everyone.

“With the advent of ablative laser such as Ultraclear, acne scarring is now able to be treated with good outcomes, even if you have darker skin”
 

Consultations

Initial consultations are booked with one of our dermal clinicians or Dr Bhatti, depending on your personal choice and the severity of your acne. After assessment, we will start you on a 12 week plan.

Treatment Options

results from multimodal acne program incuding medicattions, lasers & Peels

 

improvement in acne scarring after ultraclear laser

improvement in acne scarring after ultraclear laser