Does Acne Affect You?

Over 85% of Americans experience acne at some point in their life. Acne can be stubborn and difficult to manage. It can be painful, annoying, and can even affect your self-confidence.

Today, we get an exclusive inside look into what Mill Creek Skin and Laser Center’s skin specialist and medical director have to say about their approach to combating acne.

WHAT IS ACNE?

Acne is formed by combining excess oils from sebaceous glands, bacteria, and dead skin cells that clog the skin’s pores. This is affected by your hormones, hygiene habits, diet, and more.

Mill Creek Skin and Laser Center’s skin specialist says that most of the people who come into the clinic seeking help managing their acne are often making common hygiene mistakes: not washing their hair enough, using the wrong products, not changing their pillowcase frequently, and eating a diet that is not suitable for their body, like excess consumption of dairy, sugar, or grease, or not washing their face correctly.

Acne can also be hormonal. Treating hormonal acne can be more difficult. Often, when patients seek help from their primary care providers, they will be prescribed treatments like Accutane, spironolactone, antibiotics, or birth control pills. These traditional treatments could cause unfavorable systemic side effects.

Mill Creek Skin and Laser Center takes a more holistic approach to acne care– treating the whole body from the inside out, not just the acne on the surface.

ACNE: TREATING FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Internally, our skin specialist says that the most effective way to help achieve balance in your body is to take supplements that naturally reduce oil production and balance hormones.

Each supplement we offer is unique and uses different natural chemicals and compounds for different purposes, so she recommends that each patient come in for a complimentary one-on-one consultation with her so that she can create a custom supplement regimen that perfectly suits their needs.

Externally, she can curate a treatment plan that is all encompassing, starting from daily products like shampoo, cleansers, and moisturizers, to procedures customized to each individual’s skin type that will deep clean and reduce excess oil without overstripping the skin.

DR. LIN’S OPINION

Our resident medical director, Dr. Lin, says that acne is an innocent medical problem that can become overwhelming and even cause social issues in people’s lives.

He says it can be difficult for people since it is persistently recurring, and commonly prescribed treatments do not reach the root cause of the hyperactivity of sebaceous glands.

Dr. Lin says that by combining laser-assisted photodynamic therapy, cryomodulation, and nanomolecules, we can comprehensively treat acne, reducing the length and severity of breakouts longitudinally by chemically and mechanically destroying and suppressing hyperactive sebaceous glands.

While also managing post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and erythema and improving skin texture to reduce acne scarring.

This treatment combination is not only beneficial for improving acne scarring, but it’s also how we can efficiently restore skin health, including common concerns like photodamage, uneven skin tone, skin laxity, and more.

WHAT MAKES MILL CREEK SKIN AND LASER CENTER DIFFERENT?

Mill Creek Skin and Laser Center takes a different approach to acne because instead of prescribing a “one-size-fits-all” style medication, we design a customized regimen that is suited to each individual patient. First, we meet with you to learn about you and your unique skin.

Second, we use the specific products your skin needs to pretreat, and then we follow with the appropriate lasers for initial management. When the acne is controlled then we proceed with additional lasers to improve the skin to reach a place where scarring becomes the main concern.

Only then do we proceed with fractional resurfacing lasers with appropriate chemicals to aid scarring and further provide a great improvement of overall skin health including other common concerns like photo damage, skin laxity, pigmentation, redness, and much more.

We invite you to book a complimentary one-on-one consultation with our skin specialist today to find out what Mill Creek Skin and Laser Center can do to help you achieve your skin goals!