Oakland Scar Removal doctors
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Kimberly Lee, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
433 North Camden Drive Suite 780, Beverly Hills |
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Robert M. Lowen, MD
Bay Area Plastic Surgeon
305 South Drive Suite 1, Mountain View |
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Larry Fan, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon
77 Van Ness Avenue Suite 302, San Francisco |
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Karen M. Horton, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon
2100 Webster Street Suite 506, San Francisco |
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Shahin Javaheri, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon
2100 Webster Street, Suite 329, San Francisco |
Recent Answers
I have a 6 inch scar that is about 2 cm thick above my belly button that seems to have a"caved in" look. It also gives me a "tummy roll" look. I think (as well as the plastic surgeon I consulted)that the scar tissue is attached to the stomach muscle (starts with an "f") and that a scar revision procedure can help "smoothe out" the "caved in"/"rolled tummy"look but it wouldn't fix the "mild" fat around my love handles, upper & lower abdomen. Which procedure should be done first? Scar or PAL 1st?
One of your goals would be to remove the adherence of the scar to the abdominal wall. Doing the liposuction prior to the scar revision would avoid any possibility of disturbing the scar revsion.
I would allow three months or so to pass, letting all the reaction to the liposuction to decrease, then do the scar revision.
There are alternatives, such as doing the liposuction and scar revision at the same operation, lipo first then scar, but doing a scar revsion on stable, non-healing adjacent tissue would be my prererence. At that time you could make sure the scar was not adherent to the abdominal wall.
When i have patients with a high C-section scar who do not require a scar revsion, I usually free that scar from the abodminal wall at the time of liposuction. Otherwise the skin tends to hang over the scar in the standing position.
I recently saw an ENT surgeon about the half inch keloid on my right ear that I've had for 6 years, who immediately after 20 seconds of looking at it said OK we'll schedule to have it surgically removed and that'll be $950.00.
I've been researching this online and I've not found one positive outcome of having it removed, so should i just leave it alone and save my $1000? It doesn't hurt and hasn't changed in size in 2 years. My fear is that I'll spend the money just to have this disgusting thing come back even larger.
Keloids on the earlobes can be effectively removed, but they can also recur. You mentioned you have had it for 6 years. Based on what you describe, to optimize your results it should be surgically removed followed by steroid injections. However, you can also leave it alone if it does not bother you cosmetically or otherwise.
To optimize the results of the scar, it would be best if you have it surgically removed followed by an injected medication to minimize its recurrrence.
