# Boston Acne Specialists, Cambridge: a skin care clinic in Cambridge (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/cambridge/boston-acne-specialists-cambridge-ma. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 16 sources. Updated 2026-10-23. Owner review: not yet. 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Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Skin care clinic | | Address | 1260 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA | | Hours | Closed Mon · Tue 10 AM to 7 PM · Wed 10 AM to 5 PM · Thu 10 AM to 7 PM · Fri 10 AM to 5 PM · Sat 10 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | Nothing found | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.1 across 109 reviews on Google | | Known for | Boston Acne Specialists is primarily known for its punch excision treatments and the expertise of Dr. Ishoo in managing complex acne scars. While the clinic has garnered mixed reviews regarding patient interactions, its targeted acne solutions stand out. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 10:57 AM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1260 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Boston Acne Specialists is New England’s first and only dedicated acne treatment center. Under the supervision of board certified physician and cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Edwin Ishoo, our Acne Treatment Center in greater Boston is focused on the treatment of acne, acne scars and discoloration. We are 100% committed to clearing your acne by proven, evidence-based treatments without depending on potentially dangerous medications. If you live in the greater Boston area we recommend you come into our acne treatment centers to be evaluated in person. We also provide cortisone for urgent treatment of inflamed cystic acne and subcision, microneedling, punch excision, TCA cross, fillers and LASER resurfacing to improve the appearance of acne scars. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Wed 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Thu 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Fri 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Boston Acne Specialists | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Services | Service | Acne imposters | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Acne pigmentation | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Acne scar treatment | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Acne treatment | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Back acne | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Blue light therapy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Chemical peel results | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Chemical peels | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Cortisone injection | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Fillers | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Free photo consultation | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Laser facial | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Laser hair removal | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Laser resurfacing | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Medical acne extractions | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Microdermabrasion | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Microneedling | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Otc acne medications | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Photodynamic light therapy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/bostonacnespecialists | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/acnespecialists | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 14 services Boston Acne Specialists offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cortisone injection | | | | Confirmed | | Free photo consultation | | | | Confirmed | | Microdermabrasion | | | | Confirmed | | Laser facial | | | | Confirmed | | Laser hair removal | | | | Confirmed | | Medical acne extractions | | | | Confirmed | | Otc acne medications | | | | Confirmed | | Photodynamic light therapy | | | | Confirmed | | Acne imposters | | | | Confirmed | | Acne pigmentation | | | | Confirmed | | Chemical peel results | | | | Confirmed | | Chemical peels | | | | Confirmed | | Blue light therapy | | | | Confirmed | | Back acne | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Boston Acne Specialists is primarily known for its punch excision treatments and the expertise of Dr. Ishoo in managing complex acne scars. While the clinic has garnered mixed reviews regarding patient interactions, its targeted acne solutions stand out. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Boston Acne Specialists Address: 1260 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue 10 AM to 7 PM · Wed 10 AM to 5 PM · Thu 10 AM to 7 PM · Fri 10 AM to 5 PM · Sat 10 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 25, 2026 at 9:03 AM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Boston Acne Specialists on its Google Business Profile: "Boston Acne Specialists is New England’s first and only dedicated acne treatment center. Under the supervision of board certified physician and cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Edwin Ishoo, our Acne Treatment Center in greater Boston is focused on the treatment of acne, acne scars and discoloration. We are 100% committed to clearing your acne by proven, evidence-based treatments without depending on potentially dangerous medications. If you live in the greater Boston area we recommend you come into our acne treatment centers to be evaluated in person. We also provide cortisone for urgent treatment of inflamed cystic acne and subcision, microneedling, punch excision, TCA cross, fillers and LASER resurfacing to improve the appearance of acne scars." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Cambridge St @ Prospect St | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Cambridge St @ Prospect St | Transit station | 1 min walk | | All Star Pizza Bar | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk | | bōm dough cafe - inman square | Cafe | 1 min walk | | Urban Hearth | American restaurant | 1 min walk | | All Star Sandwich Bar | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.1 average across 109 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 25, 2026.) (AI guess, from 109 reviews.) ### What people like - Effective CO2 laser treatments - 8-week Isolaz treatment results ### What people do not like - Rude and unprofessional staff interactions - Ineffective treatments leading to continued breakouts - Long waits and scheduling issues ### Press No press story about Boston Acne Specialists found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Boston Acne Specialists Boston Acne Specialists hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### does Boston Acne Specialists ever have cancellations No answer yet ### picking between the two, is Bio Esthetics the safer bet? No answer yet ### worth it or not, what do the regulars say No answer yet ### going rate for clinics locally, any idea No answer yet ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### parking at Boston Acne Specialists, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand No answer yet ### what time does Boston Acne Specialists in Cambridge actually open? No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints? No answer yet ### Open Mondays here? No answer yet ### people keep recommending Boston Acne Specialists, what for? No answer yet ### Is numbing included at Boston Acne Specialists or is it extra? No answer yet ### best skin care clinic in Cambridge No answer yet ### real doctors here, or is it beauticians No answer yet ### services here, what do people go in for? No answer yet ### Finance options, anyone used them? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Boston Acne Specialists We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Boston Acne Specialists. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 5, 2026. Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 25, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 25 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Skin care clinics on the registry run 12 to 67. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Boston Acne Specialists scores 25. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Boston Acne Specialists | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 3 answers that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 69 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 54 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 28 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 81 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a skin care clinic When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a skin care clinic in Massachusetts, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice. - Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the Massachusetts medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free. - Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license. - Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area. - Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Boston Acne Specialists if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Boston Acne Specialists | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Boston Acne Specialists | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/ | Subject of this page | | Laser hair removal | MedicalProcedure | #service-laser-hair-removal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_hair_removal | Service offered | | Microneedling | MedicalProcedure | #service-microneedling | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen_induction_therapy | Service offered | | Cambridge, Massachusetts | City | #city | Nothing found | City Boston Acne Specialists is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the skin care clinics in Cambridge, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best skin care clinics in Cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge/skin-care-clinic - Best businesses in Cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge ### Nearby - /boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston - /newton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/newton - /somerville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/somerville - /brookline: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/brookline - /waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham - /wellesley: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/wellesley ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Massachusetts: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Boston Acne Specialists. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJJz0loUx344kR8TOG2l4JT04 (accessed Aug 25, 2026) - [2] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/acne-imposters (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/acne-pigmentation (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/back-acne (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/blue-light-therapy (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/chemical-peel-results (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/chemical-peels-c1593 (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [8] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/cortisone-injection (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [9] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/free-photo-consultation (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [10] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/laser-facial (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [11] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/laser-hair-removal (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [12] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/medical-acne-extractions (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [13] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/microdermabrasion-ciul (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [14] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/otc-acne-medications (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [15] bostonacnespecialists.com, https://www.bostonacnespecialists.com/photodynamic-light-therapy (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [16] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 5, 2026; Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 25, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)