At Celibre, we firmly believe that oral or topical antibiotics and other medications may be a valuable component of most acne treatment programs.  However, we would like to suggest that these medications (oral antibiotics specifically) are often over-used and do not address some of the underlying causes of acne.  Because of this, the acne will most likely return when the patient discontinues the antibiotics.

Current research indicates that the bacteria responsible for acne (P. acnes) are now becoming increasingly resistant to many of the mainstay acne antibiotics available.  This is also true with many other bacteria that cause disease and illness.  Besides this sobering reality, oral antibiotics for acne have systemic (whole body) side effects as well.

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Our patients often come to us after being placed on acne antibiotics for months (sometimes over a year consecutively) without any monitoring of their treatment plan or providing other acne treatment options that don’t involve long-term use of antibiotics.  At Celibre, we believe that oral antibiotics should be implemented as needed when an acne patient would benefit from a systemic effect.  However, the goal is to make this a short course of action to compliment the acne laser treatments or photodynamic therapy.

By using class IV medical lasers, we treat one of the root causes of acne – the sebaceous (or oil) glands.  By combining lasers or photodynamic therapy with a good skin care regimen, we are able to effectively treat and control acne, a condition that has no cure.  Because acne lasers or Photodynamic therapy are safe for almost all patients, these provide a good option to those that are looking for a better way that doesn’t involve long-term acne antibiotic use.

The role of lasers for acne treatment is twofold.  First, lasers kill acne bacteria.  Without bacteria, acne lesions cannot form.  P.acne bacteria is naturally occuring in the skin and by using heat energy from lasers, acne bacteria is controlled.  It is important to realize that controlling acne bacteria is only a temporary solution for controlling acne, and acne bacteria can and may return in a short time.  Because acne bacteria are natually occurring in the skin, any solution for controlling acne by killing acne bacteria (like antibiotics, blu-u light treatments or topical creams) will need to be repeated often to control the acne. 

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A longer term benefit of laser acne treatment is the control of the amount of oil produced by the sebaceous (oil) gland.  By controlling and limiting the amount of excess oil produced by the sebaceous gland, it is less likely that future acne will form.  Excess oil contributes to blocked pores and this in turn leads to acne lesions.  Using lasers, it is possible to shrink the sebaceous gland so that it does not produce as much oil in the future and therefore leads to less acne.  Although the amount of oil production after laser treatment varies from patient to patient, we find that using lasers allows us to achieve a significant reduction in the amount of active acne for between 70% and 80% of patients we see.