Acne, the permanent cure with AGNES

For those who have seen SL's blog, I guess she gives an update of her acne progress much quicker than me, as I do not often have the time to log on to document her progress. Nevertherless, these are some of her old photos taken from my IPhone. Though it has been a few months since these photos are taken, but they still provide a good update on her progress through the treatments.

 

These were taken in 25th June 2015. Slow progress, but I can see the improvement she is getting. It would need time for the pigmentation to improve but we are getting there.

AGNES and Q-switch laser. The treatment for acne / pimples

It has been only a week since the previous photos were taken. These were taken on the 11th of June 2015. Currently a single session of AGNES has been completed and I have began her Q-switch treatment.

She has reported less commedones, although clearly there is still a lot of hyperpigmentation

The recovery post AGNES is actually quite fast. Initially you may notice a few rather raised spots, but that is expected even after a facial.

These spots usually calm down within about 2-3 days. After that the Q-switch laser would then be required to remove the pink / brown pigmentation.

Sometimes there is evidence of some pustules post agnes, but these do subside pretty quickly as well, which is also the reason why you would be required to return on the second day to extract these pustules.

 

A lot of the pustular nodular acne have calmed down, leaving behind post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation which are essentially acne scars or acne marks.

The Q-switch laser ND YAG is a laser used for pigmentation. It is used to remove haemoglobin and melanin, which are deposited in the skin.

Studies performed using the Q-switch have showed significant reduction in inflamed, non-inflamed lesions as well as sebum levels.

AGNES - The PERMANENT cure for adult acne / pimples

Let me talk about the AGNES and go through a case study with a patient whom I have treated recently. She was kind enough to allow me to take pictures for posting on the internet to educate my readers including those suffering from adult acne.

Here is Patient S. A young adult female whom has been battling with acne since her teenage years. I first met her in June and this pictures were taken on 5th of June 2015

 

You can see evidence of multiple papules and comedones. These comedones are evidence of congestion of the oil glands. The redness is due to inflammation as bacteria invades into the oil glands causing infection and inflammation.

 

 

As I go through with all of my patients who require acne treatment, acne is a multi-factorial condition caused by a few factors, from genetics to hormones and also life-style factors. The conditions in the skin or pathogenesis that promote acne include hyperkeratinisation ( Or excess skin growth ) , obstruction of sebaceous follicles resulting from abnormal keratinization of the infundibular epithelium ( congestion of the oil glands ), stimulation of sebaceous gland secretion by androgens (excess oil gland secretion ), and microbial colonization of pilosebaceous units by Propionibacterium acnes ( bacetria ), which promotes perifollicular inflammation.

 

 

Of course acne comes in many various severity and different treatment protocols and treatment methods can be used to treat acne with varying degree of effectiveness.

Over the next few weeks, I shall be writing on her progress as we have actually started treatment a few months ago and we have now started to see progress of the treatments.

 

 

Introducing The Permanent Cure for Pimples at Clifford

Sounds too good to be true? Based on the latest technique from Korea, the cure for acne has been found. Without the need for creams. Without the need for oral medication. I've tried it on a few patients and I was surprised on the results as well.

Based on the theory of selective follicular destruction, the chance to be able to eliminate an acne prone follicle is the key in preventing inflammation and break outs.

Introducing the permanent solution for adult acne.

AGNES is the latest treatment protocol from Korea.

Before we can talk about how does AGNES work in preventing acne from arising permanently, we need to understand that acne is caused by acne prone follicle that arises from a sebaceous gland. As long as the acne prone follicle remains, many patients will experience recurring acne.

Using the concept of the selective destruction of sebaceous gland, we will selectively destroy the sebaceous gland under a microscope. Without the sebaceous glands, acne prone follicle cannot proliferate.

Finally, a PERMANENT cure for pimples!

As our skin has thousands of sebaceous glands, AGNES will selectively destroy individual 'problematic' glands, leaving other healthy glands untouched.

As such, AGNES is often raved to have extremely minimal down time and is a permanent cure with no recurrence. Can you imagine not having to deal with another 'volcano' again? :)

Apart from that, there is no need for oral medications, creams (that often results in drying of the skin or peeling skin), no multiple side effects and it is safe for pregnancy and breast feeding mothers.

From my experience, most patients do not require more than 3 treatments, and 1 session is enough for you to see results.