How to treat raised surgical scars effectively

After surgical treatment, surgical scars will be left. If you do not take good care of yourself in your daily life, for example, if you eat spicy food or drink alcohol before the surgery is fully healed, it will easily cause the surgical scars to bulge and proliferate. At this time, scar removal treatment can be performed. The most common one is laser treatment. Its advantages are short time, low side effects, less pain, and faster recovery.

1. Laser treatment:

Laser is suitable for superficial depressed and hypertrophic scars. When the laser acts on the skin, only the scar part of the skin surface is affected by the laser, and other tissues are not affected at all. These parts that are not affected by the laser will accumulate more collagen and elastin, which help the new generation and rearrangement of collagen in the dermis. In addition, laser irradiation will produce photothermal effect, photochemical effect, pressure effect, electromagnetic field effect and biostimulation effect on skin tissue, so that the damaged dead tissue in the skin scar can be quickly pyrolyzed, vaporized, or broken into tiny fragments, which will be engulfed by phagocytes in the body and excreted from the body, thereby achieving the purpose of smoothing the scar.

2. Radiotherapy:

Radiation therapy is suitable for superficial hypertrophic scars. When the scar area is treated with radiation therapy, superficial X-rays and beta rays can significantly reduce the number of fibroblasts in the scar tissue, impair their function, reduce the synthesis of collagen fibers and matrix, and increase the decomposition of collagen fibers, thereby flattening and softening the scar area.

3. Skin grinding surgery:

Dermabrasion is mainly suitable for superficial depressed scars. The principle of dermabrasion surgery is to smooth the epidermis of the uneven scars, and then through the wound healing process, new epidermis will grow again, making the scars blurred and improving their appearance. However, grinding surgery can only be limited to a safe depth and is powerless for scars that are too deep. Therefore, it is only limited to improving relatively shallow scars and must be performed multiple times to be effective.

4. Surgery:

For more severe superficial or hypertrophic scars, plastic surgeons may choose to use incision and suturing or skin grafting to improve and correct the scars. The cutting method is suitable for small concave and convex scars, such as chickenpox scars, ice pick-shaped acne holes, and scars that are too thick or concave. The surgical method is to excise the scar, then peel off the skin and subcutaneous tissue, reduce the tension on the wound and then carefully suture it to make it a more beautiful, thin, straight scar. However, unless it is absolutely necessary, it is best not to choose surgery to avoid the formation of new scars.

Every woman who loves beauty wants her face to be white and smooth, but the appearance of scars has troubled many women. Scars will have a certain impact on people's appearance. If scars appear on the face, the harm to the patient will be greater. Now there are more and more methods to treat scars, and scar repair surgery can help patients.