Q: Should I bring my teenage child with pimples for treatment or should I wait it out?
A: You should bring them out to seek treatment. Period.
The most important reasoning here is to PREVENT acne scarring. If you wait out the acne cycles, it may cause severe scarring to your child’s face and as you know, treating scars is a very long and tedious journey. You can lighten its appearance but can never get rid of it 100%.
Treating active acne is much easier than treating the scars.
Physically, it causes damage to the skin but remember the most dreadful thing is psycho-socially it causes low self-esteem that may carry on into their adult life.
For teenage-acne, many options are available, skincare, topical creams, oral antibiotics, light fruit acid peels and lasers are all possible modalities to treat and control acne. 
Dr. Tan
