SKIN & SCARS · ILLUSTRATED 3D RECOVERY
Punch Skin Grafting (Acne Scars): before & after and recovery stages
Compare narrow cheek pits with placed skin plugs, fading edge color and residual circular patches.
SUMMARY
What this example shows
Three fixed narrow pits per cheek are replaced by small skin plugs. Early edge color fades while circular seams and slight color or texture differences remain. This closed-surface example omits tape, dressings, donor-site harvest and open wounds. It does not predict graft survival or individual scar matching.
STAGE BY STAGE
Punch Skin Grafting (Acne Scars) recovery stages
Narrow-pit reference
Three small depressions occupy fixed sites on each cheek.
Fictional sites allow comparison with the same display face.
First treated view: Placed skin plugs
Small closed circular patches replace the pits, with early edge color.
ASDS describes grafted skin and temporary dressings. Dressings are omitted here to show the surface, not to instruct their removal.
Intermediate example: Patch boundaries remain
Temporary fullness eases while circular edges and color differences remain.
Color and texture can differ from the surrounding skin. The month-one view is an authored comparison.
Later comparison: Residual circular seams
The same patches retain slight color and texture differences.
This date does not establish graft survival or a final scar result.
TIMELINE
Day-by-day checkpoints in the 3D model
The simulator interpolates between these authored checkpoints. They describe the illustration, not measured clinical averages.
The unchanged display face provides a reference for this example.
Small circular patches replace the pits; dressings are omitted to show the surface.
The patches remain in place with local color and fullness.
The circular edges remain visible; this date is not a dressing-removal instruction.
Temporary fullness lessens around the same patches.
Circular seams and color differences remain as the early response eases.
The example retains residual circular marks.
A grafted surface retains visible differences, not untouched skin.
Residual patch differences remain; appearance and graft survival vary individually.
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
How recovery can vary
Timing and response
Donor skin, scar size and individual healing affect appearance. The fixed patches, dimensions and dates are display examples, not a graft plan.
Longer term
A graft replaces the pit with a new scar. Further resurfacing is a separate treatment and is not automatically included in this example.
EVIDENCE NOTES
Sources and limitations
- ASDS: Punch grafting for scars
Replacement of a depressed scar with a skin plug, early dressing coverage and possible residual color or texture differences. The source does not calibrate the displayed patch size, color or later comparison dates.
- AAD: Acne scar treatment
Scar types need different approaches. Scar surgery can lift depressed skin, with further change during healing and individualized combination treatment.
KEEP COMPARING
Other skin & scars examples
- Z-Plasty (Scar Reorientation)
- Scar Revision Surgery
- Mole Removal (Shave)
- Mole Removal (Excision)
- Microdermabrasion
- Dermabrasion
- Light Chemical Peel
- Medium Chemical Peel
- Deep Chemical Peel
- Ablative Laser Resurfacing
- Nonablative Laser Resurfacing
- Microneedling (Without RF)
- Radiofrequency Microneedling
- IPL (Brown-Spot Response)
- Laser Toning (Melasma)
- Skin Booster Injections
- TCA CROSS (Ice-Pick Scars)
- Punch Elevation (Boxcar Scars)
- Punch Excision (Acne Scars)
- Cryotherapy (Small Raised Scars)
- Keloid Excision
- Steroid Injections (Keloid)
- Steroid Injections (Raised Acne Scars)
- Subcision (Rolling Cheek Scars)
- Pulsed Dye Laser (Cheek Redness)
This illustration is not medical advice, diagnosis, a treatment recommendation or a prediction of personal results. Swelling, color, contour and dates are authored examples on a fictional face. BeautiNext is not a clinic; your treating team’s assessment and written recovery plan take priority.