Why You Really Need a Board-Certified Dermatologist

Hello.

I'm Dr. Tae Hoon Kim, Medical Director of ‘Grays Dermatology’ in Jung-dong, Haeundae, Busan, continually researching healthy beauty.

As a board-certified dermatologist, I see a truly wide variety of skin types.

Among them, it seems the largest number of people come in for ‘acne treatment.’

Today, rather than explaining procedures, I'd like to start by sharing my thoughts on treating acne and acne scars.

First, the key to acne treatment is ‘whether your skin's base can withstand the treatment.’

Usually, when someone with a healthy skin base develops acne due to various factors,

their skin doesn't become sensitive and recovers well even when the treatment creates significant wounds.

But many of the people who come to us for acne scar treatment have been to one dermatology clinic after another and received strong treatments.

As a result, their skin base is often compromised…

It's a truly unfortunate story…

The acne treatment I mainly perform is not a method that punches holes in the upper layer of the skin and throws it wide open like a gate.

This is a very important point, so please pay close attention.

That's because if the skin recovered 100% even after a lot of damage, that would be ideal, but in most cases it is simply left damaged.

Without proper care, the skin becomes very sensitive, redness develops, and the scars don't fill in properly.

The line of defense that blocks external irritation (the epidermis) should be left intact,

and wounds should be made neatly only within the inner skin so that it can regenerate.

This is the part I consider most important.

In the end, stabilizing the dermis is the key to skin treatment, so it's important to treat in a way that allows regeneration.

If you've read this far, you may be wondering how our clinic carries out treatment so that acne marks and scars don't remain.

When inflammation becomes severe, it is more likely to leave marks, and when marks last a long time, they are more likely to turn into depressed, atrophic scars.

So the first priority is consistent care to keep inflammation from developing in the first place, right?

That means regular extraction care and antioxidant care + Gold PTT, which I'd like to introduce today.

And for those with severe inflammation, visible pustular acne and a badly compromised skin base,

medication matters, but appropriate laser treatment is also needed.

For marks that remain even so, it's important to address them at the pre-scar stage (the stage before a scar forms) to prevent them from becoming scars.

In other words, wounds that would turn into scars need to be addressed from the start.

Scars that have already formed require strong energy and intensive treatment, as well as a lot of time for the skin to regenerate,

so the cost in time and money, as well as the burden of pain, inevitably increases.

Having said all this, what I'm really telling you is that acne marks and scars come down to preventive treatment carried out in advance.

To finish what I was saying earlier about Gold PTT,

Gold PTT combines gold nanoparticles with laser energy (GentleMax Pro)

to reduce excess sebum production, micro-inflammation and the build-up of free radicals, and to improve the environment for dermal regeneration.

Gold nanoparticles applied to the skin penetrate into the pores and dermis, and when a laser of a specific wavelength is applied, they selectively absorb the energy.

The gold particles convert this energy into heat and directly suppress the surrounding sebaceous glands, bacteria and sites where free radicals are generated.

Gold PTT not only treats acne but also provides anti-aging effects.

By reducing free radicals, a key cause of aging, it helps prevent cell damage, and as chronic inflammation decreases,

the skin barrier function recovers, the skin becomes less reactive to irritation, and its resilience improves as well.

As pores become more refined, you can also see the skin texture become smoother.

Once inflammation calms down, secondary pigmentation and redness also decrease, and collagen synthesis is stimulated in a stable environment, improving firmness as well.

Listening to myself, I sound like a peddler selling a cure-all, yet this still isn't enough to explain Gold PTT.

Skin aging patterns differ from person to person. Treatment protocols need to be designed individually according to lifestyle, sun exposure and barrier strength.

At our clinic, where every doctor is a board-certified dermatologist, we center our approach on Gold PTT

and integrate lasers, lifting and skin boosters to provide 1:1 customized anti-aging solutions.

We are also equipped with devices on par with those in Cheongdam, Seoul.

In addition to GentleMax Pro, we have Ultherapy and Thermage, as well as PicoWay, Tune Face, Lefton and more,

and we operate these newer-generation devices in optimal condition.

I use Gold PTT as the foundation of an integrated anti-aging program.

Building a healthy base that doesn't break down over time — that is my philosophy and the philosophy of our clinic.