I had a breast reduction almost four years ago and still have dark and raised scarring. Is there a procedure to minimize the scarring and flatten them?
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Answer: Revision, injection therapy, and laser treatments are all possible options to treat your scars
Hi, thanks for your question. It is difficult to be sure from the photos alone, but the scar looks stretched rather than hypertrophic. This can be due to a number of factors including operative technique, how much tension the tissue was under at the time of closure, patient characteristics, and...
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I am truly sorry you are going through this, but I am hardly surprised. I have been cautioning my regular readers for many years already that surgical scar revisions, especially in areas subject to a great deal of movement or static tension run the risk for the subsequent development of stretch...
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