Acne Scar Treatment in Singapore

Face & skin · texture

Four scar types,
and why the type decides the treatment

Searches for acne scar treatment in Singapore usually start after the breakouts have stopped and the skin has not recovered. The frustrating part is that “acne scars” is four different problems. Each has its own shape, its own cause and its own fix — and only one of the four is something a facial can meaningfully touch.

SkinRev Lab is a non-invasive aesthetic centre at CityLink Mall. We refine the surface and calm active skin. Structural scars — the pits, the walled depressions, the tethered dips — are treated by a doctor at IN Eternity Clinic, the clinic we are affiliated with. Here is how to tell which you have.

“A rolling scar is tethered, a boxcar is walled and an ice pick is a pit. No facial changes the structure of any of them — we can refine the surface, and we will say so.”

— SkinRev Lab Aesthetic Specialist

Ice pick

Narrow, deep pits, often on the cheeks; respond to TCA CROSS (doctor)

Boxcar

Wider depressions with defined edges; respond to fractional laser (doctor)

Rolling

Shallow, wave-like dips from fibrous tethering; respond to subcision (doctor)

Raised (hypertrophic/keloid)

Thickened scar tissue; medical assessment

Surface marks and texture

Roughness, residual redness, uneven surface; respond to microplasma resurfacing and calming protocols (SkinRev Lab)

What goes where

The honest ladder:
surface here, structure with the doctor

Why we refuse to oversell this

What the evidence
actually supports

The ice pick / boxcar / rolling classification comes from the dermatology literature and exists because the three respond to different procedures. Rolling scars are held down by fibrous strands and release when those strands are cut; ice picks are too narrow and deep for resurfacing and are treated by chemical reconstruction of the pit; boxcar scars respond to ablative fractional resurfacing. All three are procedures a doctor performs.

What a non-invasive centre can do is real but bounded: refine surface irregularity, fade residual marks and stop the skin producing new scars. We would rather tell you that on day one than sell you a course that cannot reach the problem.

References

1. Jacob CI, Dover JS, Kaminer MS. Acne scarring: a classification system and review of treatment options. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2001;45(1):109–117.
2. American Academy of Dermatology. Acne scars: diagnosis and treatment.

Medical treatments

How the doctor treats it

These are performed by Dr Sin Yong at IN Eternity Clinic. Each page explains the mechanism, who it suits and the published evidence.

Common questions

Your questions,
answered