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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Facing Up to Acne | |
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| Dealing with Acne | |
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| Acne Explained | |
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| Waking up to whiteheads, blackheads, and zits | |
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| Taking it on the chin later in life | |
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| Creating Your Acne-Treating Program | |
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| Meeting the players | |
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| Deciding whether to treat yourself | |
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| Relying on the experts | |
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| Avoiding quickie, quacky cures | |
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| Recognizing Impostors and Related Conditions | |
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| Getting Comfortable with the Skin You're In | |
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| Exploring Your Largest Organ | |
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| Getting above it all: Hey, your epidermis is showing! | |
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| Scratching the surface: Now your dermis is showing! | |
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| Digging deeper: Your subcutaneous layer | |
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| Basic Operating Instructions: Taking Care of Your Skin | |
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| Washing your face | |
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| Dealing with dry skin | |
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| Coping with an oil glut | |
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| Tracing the Evolution of a Pimple | |
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| Paying the High Price for Oil | |
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| Priming the pump with hormones | |
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| Clogging your pores and narrowing the hair canal | |
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| Forming blackheads and whiteheads | |
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| Battling bacteria | |
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| Scarring: Your skin's repair kit | |
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| Classifying Acne | |
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| Figuring Out Your Acne and How to Tackle It on Your Own | |
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| Examining Acne in Teens | |
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| Identifying Teenage Acne | |
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| Taking a look at teen skin | |
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| Exploring teen acne | |
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| Tracking acne's footsteps | |
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| Understanding the Causes of Teenage Acne | |
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| Passing through puberty: Hormones gone wild | |
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| Thanking your family: The heredity factor | |
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| Acknowledging the Emotional | |
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| Addressing Acne in Adults | |
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| Identifying Adult-Onset Acne | |
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| Describing the symptoms | |
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| Taking an emotional toll | |
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| Emerging at Any Age | |
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| Acne and your menstrual cycle | |
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| New baby, new bumps: Acne and pregnancy | |
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| You're never too old | |
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| Facing Acne As an Adult Man | |
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| Evaluating Other Causes and Contributors: Myth and Reality | |
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| Debunking Dirt and Grease Theories | |
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| Dismissing the Diet - For the Most Part | |
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| Frying up an acne fable | |
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| Here's the beef - and the milk | |
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| No, it's the sweets: A disease of Western civilization? | |
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| No, it's the iodides | |
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| Salmon saves the day, or does it? | |
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| Understanding Stress and Acne | |
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| Addressing some Aggravating Agents | |
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| Drugs that can induce acne | |
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| Initiating or irritating factors? | |
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| Making Up and Breaking Out? | |
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| Reading the ingredients | |
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| Living in an oil-free world | |
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| Taking Care of Acne Over the Counter | |
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| Taking Action Topically: A Primer | |
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| The Lazy Bums! Inactive Ingredients | |
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| Getting In on the Active Ingredients | |
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| The benefits of benzoyl peroxide | |
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| Trying salicylic acid | |
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| Other OTC medications | |
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| A Word about Acne Soaps, Cleansing Strips, Et Al | |
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| Evaluating Advertisers' Claims | |
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| Turning to the Pros to Treat Your Type of Acne | |
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| Calling in the Experts | |
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| Establishing Basic Goals of Treatment | |
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| Seeing Your Primary Healthcare Provider | |
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| Working together to treat your acne | |
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| Requesting a referral to see a specialist | |
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| Finding the Right Dermatologist for You | |
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| Using networking techniques | |
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| Checking in with professional associations | |
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| Looking at your insurance directory | |
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| Perusing the phone book and advertisements | |
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| Going to the Dermatologist for the First Visit | |
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| Taking stock of your medical history | |
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| Preparing on the day of your visit | |
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| Meeting the doc | |
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| Launching a Good Working Relationship | |
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| Following instructions | |
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| Being a "patient" patient | |
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| Telephoning the dermatologist with questions | |
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| Deciding to change dermatologists | |
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| Reviewing the Topical Tools at Your Dermatologist's Disposal | |
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| Taking the Topical Route | |
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| Opening Up the Tool Chest | |
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| Reviewing topical retinoids | |
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| Turning to topical antibiotics | |
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| Combining benzoyl peroxide with topical antibiotics | |
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| Looking at other topicals | |
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| Going Generic | |
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| Taking the Oral Antibiotic Route | |
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| Calling In the Reinforcements | |
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| Deciding it's time for oral antibiotics | |
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| Addressing some common concerns | |
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| Tetracyclines: The First Team | |
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| Reviewing warnings, risks, and side effect of tetracyclines | |
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| Taking generic ("plain") tetracycline | |
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| Taking minocycline | |
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| Taking doxycycline | |
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| Second-Line Oral Antibiotics | |
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| Surveying Strategies to Reduce Antibiotic Use | |
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| Your Guides to Your Medications | |
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| Hormonal Treatment for Women | |
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| Using Oral Contraceptives | |
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| Suppressing the cycle - and the acne | |
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| Taking the best pills for acne | |
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| Looking out for side effects | |
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| Trying Anti-androgens | |
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| Managing Acne in Dark-Complexioned Skin | |
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| Recognizing Diversity | |
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| Figuring Out Those Dark Spots! | |
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| How dark spots are formed | |
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| Deterring the dark spots | |
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| Keeping Acne and Dark Spots at Bay with OTC Medications | |
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| Benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid | |
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| Over-the-counter bleaches | |
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| Getting Professional Help | |
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| Treating your acne and PIP with topical drugs | |
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| Peeling the pigment away | |
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| Managing the scars | |
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| Oral acne therapy to prevent scars and PIP | |
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| Looking at Pomade Acne | |
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| Cosmetics for Women of Various Ethnic Groups | |
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| Attacking Acne with Accutane and Other Isotretinoins | |
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| You Say Accutane, I Say Isotretinoin | |
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| Getting to Know the Drug and Its Uses | |
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| Preparing for Treatment | |
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| Procedures all patients must follow | |
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| Additional steps females must take | |
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| Knowing What to Expect when You Take Isotretinoin | |
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| Taking your pills and observing results | |
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| What not to do when you're taking isotretinoin | |
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| Sizing up side effects | |
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| The risk of depression and suicide | |
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| Searching for Weapons of Zit Destruction | |
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| You Light Up My Face: Zapping the Zits | |
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| Honing in on P. acnes with photodynamic therapy | |
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| Looking ahead: Stopping oil at the source and other promising paths | |
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| Avoiding ultraviolet light | |
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| Taking It from the Top | |
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| Experiencing an AHA or BHA peel | |
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| Trying out a TCA peel | |
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| Seeking Alternative Treatments | |
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| Does Alternative Medicine Work? | |
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| Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine | |
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| Trying Chinese herbs | |
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| Trying acupuncture for acne | |
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| Going Natural: Herbs and Supplements Are All around You | |
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| Fighting bacteria with botanicals | |
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| Reducing inflammation with herbs | |
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| Herbs at the cosmetic counter | |
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| Finding a professional herbalist | |
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| Going natural with minerals and vitamins | |
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| Checking Out the Ancient Art of Ayurveda | |
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| Taking a Deep Breath: Aromatherapy | |
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| Considering Homeopathy | |
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| Practicing Mind/Body Medicine | |
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| Practicing yoga | |
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| Meditation: Contemplating nothing | |
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| Biofeedback and cognitive imagery | |
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| Hypnosis | |
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| Dealing with Scars and Associated Conditions | |
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| Focusing on the Physical Scars | |
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| Examining Acne Scars | |
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| Pulling in: Scars caused by loss of tissue | |
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| Growing out: Collagen running amok | |
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| Taking Initial Treatment Steps | |
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| Deciding whether you want to do anything about it | |
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| Finding a physician | |
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| Treating Your Scars | |
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| Laser skin resurfacing | |
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| Considering other surgical treatment options | |
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| Trying out dermabrasion | |
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| Vacuuming your skin: Microdermabrasion | |
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| Considering emerging technologies | |
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| Coping with the Psychological Scars | |
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| Facing Acne Can Be Tough - But You Can Do It | |
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| Detecting Depression in Yourself and Your Family | |
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| Helping Your Child Deal with Acne | |
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| Offering your help | |
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| Detecting depression in teens | |
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| Accutane and depression: Is there a link? | |
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| Thinking about Therapy | |
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| Reining in Rosacea and Other Acne Look-Alikes | |
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| Rosacea 101 | |
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| Describing those affected | |
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| Reporting the signs and symptoms | |
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| Addressing additional signs and symptoms | |
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| Comparing the appearance to acne | |
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| Determining whether it's just rosy cheeks | |
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| So, what causes rosacea? | |
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| Examining Irritants and Rosacea-Prone Skin | |
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| Handling your skin with care! | |
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| Making it worse - fact and fiction | |
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| Treating Rosacea | |
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| Taking a look at the topicals | |
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| Treating rosacea by mouth | |
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| Managing the Redness | |
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| Covering up with camouflage | |
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| Buzzing the telangiectasias away | |
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| Getting the red out: Light-based therapies | |
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| Going the surgical route for rhinophyma | |
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| Identifying Rosacea Look-Alikes | |
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| Recognizing perioral dermatitis | |
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| Being aware of topical steroid-induced "rosacea" | |
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| Fighting the Feisty Follicle | |
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| Reining in Razor Bumps | |
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| Examining the causes | |
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| Shaving correctly with PFB | |
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| Treating razor bumps on your own | |
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| Getting professional help | |
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| Dealing with Those Hairs | |
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| Removing hairs temporarily | |
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| Removing hairs permanently | |
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| Slowing down the hairs | |
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| Recognizing and Feeling Keratosis Pilaris: "Hair Bumps" | |
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| Distinguishing KP from acne | |
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| Treating the hair bumps | |
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| Reviewing Endocrine Disorders Associated with Acne | |
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| Connecting Androgen Excess and Acne | |
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| Testing for endocrine imbalances | |
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| Considering the most common cause of androgen excess: PCOS | |
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| Touching On Other Endocrine Disorders | |
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| Congenital adrenal hyperplasia | |
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| Cushing's disease and Cushing's syndrome | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Terrific Acne and Rosacea Web Sites | |
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| AcneNet | |
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| American Society for Dermatologic Surgeons | |
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| DermNet NZ | |
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| eMedicine.com | |
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| MedLine Plus: Acne | |
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| Omni: Acne Vulgaris | |
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| RosaceaNet | |
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| Stop Spots | |
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| Acne Support Group | |
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| Dermatology in the Cinema | |
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| Ten Tips for Healthy Skin | |
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| Steering Clear of Excessive Sun Exposure | |
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| Opting for Sunless Tanning | |
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| Dimming the Shine of Oily Skin | |
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| Humidifying Dry Skin | |
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| Soothing Sensitive Skin | |
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| Promoting a Youthful Glow | |
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| Caring for the Bumps | |
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| Minimizing Stress | |
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| Visiting a Dermatologist | |
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| Giving Yourself a Break | |
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| Ten Things You Should Never Do to Your Skin | |
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| Picking, Popping, or Squeezing | |
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| Pre-tanning at a Salon | |
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| Smoking | |
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| Taking Too Much Vitamin A | |
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| Traveling the Perilous Peel and Dermabrasion Route | |
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| Treating Rosacea with Over-the-Counter Medications | |
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| Applying Topical Steroids to Your Face | |
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| Shaving with Four-In-One Razor Blades | |
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| Using Mystery Products | |
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| Looking in the Mirror too Much | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| International Brand Names for Some of the Medications Listed in This Book | |
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| Index | |