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Can Reconstructive Surgery Improve Scar Tissue on Lips?
asked 2 years ago by Laurel962 in Cleveland
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
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Tags: lips, female, healing, reconstructive, scar, scar tissue, upper lip
Four months ago, I tore my upper lip. The emergency doc said, "Lips heal by themselves". My lip did "heal", but there's a thick scar, a ball of scar tissue like a jelly bean.
Also, a large crooked bulge at the bottom of the upper lip, and a noticeable horizontal scar that shows when I smile. It's very painful to the touch. The doctors's have been very discouraging, advising me to wait a year, then that surgery would make things WORSE.
How can lips "heal by themselves", yet be so sensitive that you can't do surgery because "all surgery will leave scars"? Cannot find a surgeon to help me.
1 answer to Can Reconstructive Surgery Improve Scar Tissue on Lips?
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Lip scar revision
Lips do not heal by themselves usually as well as if sutures are placed to help control things a bit. If you are unhappy with your scar, you probably need to wait a bout a year for the tissues to soft to revise the scar.
