How to effectively remove surgical scars

It is easy to leave scars after surgery, and these hideous scars make many people very painful. Therefore, if you want to effectively remove scars, you should pay attention to scientifically choosing some methods. You can choose to apply topical medications to lighten scars, or you can use silicone patch therapy.

1. Apply topical medication

Scar ointments can be classified into ordinary moisturizing creams, anti-scar and anti-inflammatory creams containing steroids, moisturizing and softening creams containing silicone, and melanin-removing ointments used to lighten pigmentation. Since scars are normal connective fibrous tissues that heal wounds, they are inevitably formed and exist at any wound site. Topical ointments applied to the scar area are limited to minor therapeutic effects such as moisturizing, softening connective tissue, and lightening pigments, thereby improving and beautifying the appearance of the scar.

When the fruit acid used for beauty is in high concentration (>10%), it has a skin exfoliating effect, causing the original epidermal tissue to peel off, stimulating the metabolism of the dermal tissue, thereby growing tender skin and smoothing out uneven scars. It is effective after lasting for several months.

2. Silicone patch therapy

Silicone patches are applied externally to hypertrophic scars to prevent and treat scar hyperplasia. After using self-adhesive silicone patches on the scar surface, the evaporation of water on the scar surface can be reduced, the hydration of scar tissue can be increased, and the permeability of water-soluble proteins and various water-soluble inflammatory protein mixtures on the scar surface can be increased, allowing these water-soluble proteins to diffuse on the skin surface, reducing water-soluble proteins and products in the interstitium, reducing fluid pressure, promoting scar maturation, softening and flattening, and making the scar tissue lighter in color and closer to the natural skin color. Silicone patch therapy has been widely used since the 1980s and is currently the only proven effective means of scar self-treatment. Its non-invasive treatment method has a very low incidence of allergies and other complications.

3. Laser treatment

Laser treatment is suitable for superficial depressed and hypertrophic scars. When the laser acts on the skin, the scar part on the skin surface is affected by the laser, and other tissues are not affected. These parts that are not affected by the laser will accumulate more collagen and elastin, which help the regeneration 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, which will cause the damaged dead tissue in the skin scar to quickly pyrolyze, vaporize, or break into tiny fragments, which will be swallowed by phagocytes in the body and excreted from the body, thereby achieving the purpose of smoothing the scar.

4. Radiation therapy

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.