For the people that have had to endure the effects of Acne and Psoriasis, the scars that are left behind from acne can often be as burdensome as the acne itself. These scars or pockmarks come in different shapes, and have their own particular category of identification.The scars are caused by tissue loss, and over production of collagen that form in to a coarse sinewy mass. One of these skin deformations is called icepick, and is identified as sharp narrow marks with the skin taking on the appearance of having been punctured many times with an icepick leaving lots of little surface holes, which often extend deep into the skin tissue.Boxcar is a term given to this pockmark that can take on the form of crater shaped depressions in the skin, and can be shallow or deep and occur mainly on the cheeks. Pockmarks on the skin that take on a rolling or undulating form and texture, are the consequence of sinewy folds in the to the subcutaneous tissue below the skin. Like many other skin defects of this type, they respond well to particular […]

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