I would like to speak about acne today. Acne is a condition that can affect us in many stages of our life. It is estimated that 70% of all people would have acne at some point of time or in some form during their life time. It is most prominent in our teenage years, perhaps young adulthood, however, it can start as early as the end of our childhood years, at the age nine, ten, or eleven, or it may even persist or even start at the age of forty, fifty, or even later, however it is rare. Acne can take many forms and expressions.When we are younger it is usually located higher on our face and when we get older if acne occur, it usually occurs on the lower portion of the face, and sometimes even the neck line. Acne occurs because of a number of different conditions that play together.There is a genetic inability to properly shed off the skin around the hair follicles, the hair follicles also serve as the outlet for our oil glans. When oil gets trapped at the oil glans and can not properly exit onto the skin, it enlarges the oil glans itself that causes the inflammatory response in the surrounding skin, which brings in the white blood cells that try to fight that pressure from the oil glans. Also, the filled oil glans, will serve as reservoir for bacteria that normally lives on our skin but can feed on the oil inside the oil glans. All of that together can as well cause addition inflammation when bacteria is present within the oil glans. So, there can be multiple different expressions as I already alerted to there is mild, there is moderate, there is severe and sometimes cystic acne and there can be acne that is located not only the face back and chest, which are the common locations, but there can sometimes be a typical variance of acne where the acne is located on the scalp, sometimes even in other area of the body. So, there are different treatment suggestions according to the different presentations of acne. They are often time aimed at reducing the ceiling features of the acne. There is treatment of mild acne there is treatment for moderate acne, there is treatment for severe or cystic acne, and I will introduce these type of treatments in a future segment.