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Comparison of Treatments for Atrophic Acne Scars

NCT02025088 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 23

Last updated 2013-12-31

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Summary

Acne scars have high prevalence, significant impact on quality of life and are a therapeutic challenge for dermatologists. Previous studies have shown promising results for the treatment of acne scars with non-ablative fractional laser and microneedling, however there are no studies comparing the these techniques. Therefore, the objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of treatment of atrophic acne scars on the face with non-ablative fractional erbium laser and microneedling.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Laser

Patients of this arm will undergo three sessions of laser treatment with an interval of six weeks between them. In each laser session, the non-ablative fractional erbium laser 1340 nm ProDeep (Etheria ® platform/Industra) with tip 100mtz/cm ² will be applied across the face, with a power of 120mJ/mtz time and pulse time of 5ms.

PROCEDURE

Microneedling

Patients in this arm will undergo three sessions with microneedling, with an interval of six weeks between them. In the microneedling sessions, the instrument contains 192 microneedles with 2 mm depth, which will be applied to the face in four different directions, making up about 20 movements of "coming and going" in each direction.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Thaís Hofmann Cachafeiro

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thais H Cachafeiro, MD · Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-11-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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