Removing the Appearance of Scars
After your skin suffers an injury like an accident or surgery, scar tissue forms. The amount of scar tissue that forms depends on your age, the color of your skin (pigmentation), and the size, location and depth of the wound. When scarring happens, many turn to scar revision surgery as a way to reduce the appearance of scars.
Scar revision can be performed for a number of reasons, including when a scar:
Is angled against the normal tension lines of the skin
Is thickened
Causes distortion of other features or impedes with normal movement
Is abnormal (as in a keloid scar), which is thicker and […]