The Management of Postacne Scarring

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The Management of Postacne Scarring
October 2007
# GREG J. GOODMAN, FACD**Skin and Cancer Foundation of Victoria and Monash University Department of Community Medicine, Victoria, Australia; AND
# JENNIFER A. BARON, MD
Dermatologic Surgery

BACKGROUND Therapeutic intervention for postacne scarring has historically been limited by the considerable morbidity of most treatments for only marginal disease improvement. Within the past decade, however, a greater understanding of the pathogenesis of acne scarring has led to the development of techniques that offer more favorable riskÒbenefit profiles.

OBJECTIVE The aims of this article are to highlight a number of newer techniques and to assign their appropriateness to particular grades of acne scarring.

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