I agree with the advice given by Dr. Rand. While something like Fraxel or IPL might lead to a minor degree of improvement, such treatment is not worth the money. Even less so the creams you might see being plugged on the internet. Aside from cutting them out, if you have an excuse to do so via a tummy tuck, there is no good modality in the near future.
In the moderately distant future a technology such as being developed by the Isolagen Company might be promising. In that technique, a small 3 mm piece of skin is removed from the patient, the fibroblasts are harvested and grown and then injected back into the patient. Since fibroblasts grow collagen and elastin, the substances that are ruptured in the formation of striae (stretch marks), it is perfectly conceivable that these cells can regrow the tissue that was ruptured. Just speculating.
