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Intralesional Steroid Injection

Intralesional steroid injections are a procedure to directly deliver anti-inflammatory and collagen-reducing substances into acne lesions, acne scars, and other forms of scarring like keloid and hypertrophic scars.

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Concerns Treated

Scars

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Acne

There might be a few (or a lot) of things you wouldn’t have minded growing out of. If your acne followed you out of high school, fear not you can ditch those unwanted blemishes once and for all.

Acne Scars

Pimples and blemishes don’t always fade away to nothing, and, just as there are several kinds of acne, there are several types of acne scars that breakouts can leave behind.

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Source List

  1. Yanhan Wang, Tissa R. Hata Yun, Larry Tong, Christos C. Zouboulis, Richard L. Gallo, Chun-Ming Huang The Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Propionibacterium acnes CAMP Factor-Targeted Acne Vaccines ; 2018-11-11

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