What can be done to minimize the appearance of lollipop breast lift scars?

Plastic surgery scars require attention after surgery so that they remain cosmetically-appealing and barely noticeable. In our office, we use a protocol for scars that minimizes their activity in the 6-8 weeks after surgery. If you have late plastic surgery scars, you may also require laser and RF therapy to help reduce the longterm effects of the scarring. Keloids, hypertrophic scars, widened scars, red scars, and hyperpigmented scars all require scar modulation with topical creams followed by lasers and RF therapy. Topical skincare should be directed to a specific need, whether for pigmentation or hypertrophy and our office can guide you through the process to obtain the correct Plato’s Scar cream or Melarase cream for hypertrophy and discoloration. In terms of lasers, we would employ the vbeam laser for redness, Venus Viva RF, PRP microneedling, chemical peels, and Morpheus 8, fractional erbium, or fractional co2. All of these have their individual benefits. Most of all, we recommend you visit a solid plastic surgeon who understands surgical scar revision, laser therapy, and RF therapy for scars.

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Dr. Karamanoukian
Realself100 Surgeon

It is very important to make sure that you do not start scar therapy treatments too soon. Generally, it is good to just to some Bacitracin ointment or Aquaphor for a couple weeks first after sutures are removed at about week three. So by week 5-6 your body should have by then completely finished the first faze of regenerating and healing. Try using a medical grade silicone gel sheeting like BIODERMIS. Pure vitamin E oil also works very well. It is crucial to make sure you are keeping you incisions out of the sun or exposure to tanning beds, etc. For this may deepen the scarring.

Thank you for posting your question here.Scars are a major issue in plastic surgery and surgery in general. The way to minimize scars starts with the way the surgeon handles the tissue , the sutures they use and the amount of tension on the wound itself. Those factors can relatively be controlled , by gently handling the tissues , using less reactive sutures and in certain areas removing those sutures within the right time frame, and by minimizing tension on the wound (for example not excising too much tissue, using devices that can decrease tension on the area etc (like brijjit, prevena etc).
During the healing process the use of silicone gels and tapes can also help decrease scarring and the use of laser can help improve the scar appearance and pigmentation .
That being said the biggest factor is the patient's physiology , some patients heal well they form minimal scar and their scars are almost unnoticeable while others form keloids and hypertrophic scars this factor unfortunately cannot be controlled but you can make sure that you are physically optimized by eating well and when cleared by your surgeon or pre-operatively working out.
That being said though I would recommend utilizing most of those tools in decreasing any scarring I would recommend discussing them with your surgeon first. I would also not judge a scar immediately post operatively as scars change as they mature and usually improve and become lighter in color and less obvious with time .
I hope this helps. Best of luck!