Acne is a disturbing condition of the skin, characterized by the appearance of acne, blemishes (whiteheads and blackheads) and scars that have ever occurred. This is a common condition that suffers - with varying degrees of severity - most adolescents. Other people who usually suffer from acne are pregnant women. People who are exposed to serious stress in their lives can also suffer from acne. The high level of acne in these groups of people is due to hormonal changes that occur during puberty / adolescence and pregnancy, as well as hormonal changes that can cause excessive stress.
Now, to be able to effectively deal with this, experts are evaluating acne. The idea of acne classification is to provide an objective criterion by which the degree of acne acuity is assessed. This is important because, due to a significant disruption of the effect of acne, is one of the conditions when each patient imagines that their case is the worst.
For such purposes (severity of acne) several scales have been developed.
1) One of the most commonly used scales for evaluating acne (especially in dermatological clinics) is what refers to the Cook scale. The beauty of the Cook scale is that it uses photographs, so the doctor can compare what he or she sees in front of him with what is on the Cook scale - and decide on the appropriate course of action. This is probably the most objective criterion for evaluating acne, which we have, the fact that it does not use numbers very much.
2) The second scale for assessing acne is what is called the Leeds scale. Unlike the Cook scale, which compares photos to reality, the Leeds scale; numbers are entered into the image. Thus, we have acne, which are graded on a scale from zero to ten. The movement here comes from the most inflammatory lesions of acne to minimal or non-inflammatory. Thus, on this scale, zero does not necessarily mean that it is free from acne. This means that acne alone is not inflammatory. This is a very clinically oriented way to assess acne, because from a purely medical (and not cosmetic) point of view, what is causing acne is not a disfiguring effect that it can have as such, but an inflammation that it promises to cause.
3) The third acne rating scale is what we call the Pillsbury scale. The beauty of the Pillsbury scale lies in its simplicity: it treats acne in terms of "seriousness." (which was the entire appraisal business), and then assesses it on a scale of 1 to 4. Evaluation is also very simple, in fact, with 1 for the least severe cases of acne, and 4 for the most severe cases of this condition.
It is from the assessment results obtained using one of these scales that the dermatologists make a decision, regardless of the prescription, simply train the patient on a coping mechanism or, in the most difficult cases, take radical measures, such as surgery.
