Is there a difference between adult acne and adolescent acne?
Not really, it’s the same disease. In fact, an acne lesion on a teenage boy is the physiological duplicate of that on a premenstrual woman. Both are the result of overly active oil (sebaceous) gland triggered by androgen hormones. The only real difference is where the breakouts occur. For adolescents, acne is common on the forehead, nose, cheeks and chin, where as for women it occurs in the perioral area around the mouth, chin and jaw line.
