Category: scar revision

Scar Revisions of Dogbite Injuries in Children

One of the most common traumatic facial injuries to deal with in children as a plastic surgeon are dogbites. There are a lot more common than most people think and, fortunately, are usually minor and result in no significant scarring. They often are just ‘nips’ and don’t require any major reconstructive surgery. But having been Read More…

Surgical Scar Healing – Patient Education and Expectations

Scars are by far and away the concern of most plastic surgery patients, either before or after surgery. They are keenly interested in how to diminish their appearance and or what specific preventative or treatment strategies would be most effective. Scars can also be a source of tremendous dissatisfaction if they become exaggerated due to Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Scar Revision

Scar revision is most commonly done by surgical excision of the scar and putting it back together as either a straight line or a geometric or broken line closure pattern. The type of scar revision used depends on the location of the scar, its size and dimensions and the patient’s skin characteristics. The following Read More…

Treatment Options for Facial Acne Scars

Acne is a common skin condition that results in a wide variety of scars types and patterns. Even though there are a number of available treatments for acne scars, they are not always universally successful. Acne scars represent a difficult challenge for improvement and every option must be considered in each patient. Often different Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Scar Treatments

Scars are a common problem that occur from a variety of events including injury, various skin conditions and surgical procedures. Removal of these scars is a frequent patient request from plastic surgeons. While scar treatments have been a part of plastic surgery for a very long time, one thing about them has always been Read More…

Treatment of Self-Inflicted Cutter Scars

Scars come in a wide variety of patterns that often identify the cause of the original injury. One of the most identifiable scar patterns is that from cutting. Most commonly seen on the arms, cutting is a form of self-mutilation that is almost exclusively seen in teenagers and young men and women. Using sharp objects Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Embrace Scar Device

Scars remain a challenging problem. This is demonstrated by the sheer number of scar treatment products and strategies that exist, all of which claim to offer improved scar outcomes. A new scar device, called Embrace by Neodyne Biosciences, has released study results which show improvement in abdominoplasty scars. The Embrace device is an FDA-approved Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Myth of Laser Scar Removal

When most people think of scar revision they usually think of two things; elimination of the scar and the use of lasers to do it. The reality is that both of these perceived principles of scar revision are wrong. Scars may be able to be improved but they can almost never be removed. Plastic surgeons Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Whiteness of Scars and How To Treat It

Scars are the body’s natural method of reuniting skin back together. There are different types of scars but the most typical is the atrophic scars, a flat wide scar.They leave visible marks because the tissue that grows back together does not have some specialized skin cells, particularly pigment cells. This is why scars eventually turn Read More…