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Accutane or Tretinoin for skin quality

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I posted a thread earlier abt accutane vs tret but I think people were confused as to what i'm after

I have some acne but it's basically all inactive

The main thing I want to know is what's better between them when it comes to overall skin quality improvement

lmk what u think
 
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accutane much better for acne especially acne that you’ve had for a while + if your skin gets remotely dry I wouldn’t recommend accutane, it’ll dry you out like crazy

tret is better for overall skin since it’s a retinoid so it helps with acne and aging
but if you’ve had acne for a long time trets not gonna do much
tret
depends on how long you've had acne for but accutane is stronger
also depends on how much acne you have but probably tret
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most of my acne is old so you can still see stuff but it's not really active

i used to use 10mg accutane everyday

i never really had THAT much acne either

i started having acne the first day of junior year so about 2 years ago

it used to be worse, still not...
accutane much better for acne especially acne that you’ve had for a while + if your skin gets remotely dry I wouldn’t recommend accutane, it’ll dry you out like crazy

tret is better for overall skin since it’s a retinoid so it helps with acne and aging
but if you’ve had acne for a long time trets not gonna do much
 
tret
depends on how long you've had acne for but accutane is stronger
also depends on how much acne you have but probably tret
mark as soltuion
 
accutane much better for acne especially acne that you’ve had for a while + if your skin gets remotely dry I wouldn’t recommend accutane, it’ll dry you out like crazy

tret is better for overall skin since it’s a retinoid so it helps with acne and aging
but if you’ve had acne for a long time trets not gonna do much
tret
depends on how long you've had acne for but accutane is stronger
also depends on how much acne you have but probably tret
mark as soltuion
most of my acne is old so you can still see stuff but it's not really active

i used to use 10mg accutane everyday

i never really had THAT much acne either

i started having acne the first day of junior year so about 2 years ago

it used to be worse, still not horrible, but worse than it is now, however, that could be for multiple reasons
 
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most of my acne is old so you can still see stuff but it's not really active

i used to use 10mg accutane everyday

i never really had THAT much acne either

i started having acne the first day of junior year so about 2 years ago

it used to be worse, still not horrible, but worse than it is now, however, that could be for multiple reasons
yeah I would say tret would be better for u
 

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