The Terminator: Can you use Laser Therapy for Acne?
At first glance, laser therapy seems to be the perfect answer to acne. Take one of them LASER guns, blast away at the infuriating pustules, and darned well nuke them! Brilliant and permanent. In fact, it is so brilliant that it may just be too good to be true, from what I’ve read and heard.
Essentially, LASER (I keep writing this in all caps because LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) therapy for acne involves the use of a ‘yellow light’ to kill the acne-causing bacteria. What this yellow light does is react to a chemical called porphorine found in the bacteria to produce oxygen, which destroys the critters. Best of all, LASER therapy helps produce collagen, which prevents scarring from acute acne. Read more on The Terminator: Can you use Laser Therapy for Acne?…
