Mohs Surgery: Q&A
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What Should Mohs Surgery Scar on Your Chin Look Like 1 Year After Having Plastic Surgery?
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Scar Appearance 1 year later
The appearance of the scar one year after reconstruction is dependent upon multiple factors. The type of repair that was performed, any complications (e.g. infection, hematoma), your own predisposition towards keloids/hypertrophic scars, etc. etc It's not dependent upon the Mohs surgery as the Mohs surgery creates the smallest wound possible (while giving the highest cure rate). It takes about 6-12 months after reconstyruction to reach the final "result" so if you're...
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Scar appearances vary
Scar appearances vary, depending up on the location, type of reconstruction, skin tone, exposure to UV light, and wound care. But in general, as time passes, most scars improve in their appearance.
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Ideally scars after Mohs surgery heal well but there are several variables
Typically scars after surgery improve on their own in texture and color and sensation for a year after surgery. After 1 year, improvement on its own is less likely.
The appearance of a scar is ideally "hard to see" or easily camouflaged but this is not always true and depends to a large degree on variables such as the size of the surgery, the type of surgery necessary to repair the defect after the cancer excision, the presence of complications such as infection or...
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Scar 1 Year After Mohs Surgery
The appearance of a scar will depend on how the incision was re-approximated, the orientation of the scar with relation to relaxed skin tension lines, the quality of the skin (very sebaceous skin heals less favorably), the degree of sun exposure to name a few variables. As other posters have noted, there is no simple answer without a picture. However, at 1 year, the scar is probably not going to change or improve to any significant degree.
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Scar on chin after one year
A picture would be helpful, as well as some information on the type of tumor removed, amount of stages for removal and type of closure. These things as well as the skin type and age of patient, as well as exact location on the chin- all determine what will happen in one year. In the hands of board certified physicians your scar should not be bad- and if you are not satisified with the results there are ways to revise the scar via surgery or laser. Speaking to your Mohs surgeon and...
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Scars after Mohs surgery
Every patient may heal differently. Most often, scars following Mohs surgery on the face, heal excellent and with time are not very noticeable.
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Mohs surgery and reconstruction scars can be treated by Fraxel
There is no one right answer to your question as there are many different scars related to the type of skin and its texture of the patient undergoing surgery. Some people are prone to darkening of their pigment after surgery and others develop red blood vessels around the scar. Some can get overhealing where collagen of their body continues to be produced and deposited in the scar excessively which produces a raised, sometimes painful, scar which may be a hypertrophic scar or keloid....
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