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Thank you for your question.You may be a candidate for scar revision. I recommend that you be examined by a board certified plastic surgeon to be sure. There is also a minimally invasive procedure known as Carboxy Therapy that may help improve the appearance of your scar. I have included a link below that explains Carboxy Therapy in detail.Good luck!
since you have had conservative therapy then a revision may be in order and perhaps some post op radiation therapy.
Classic hypertrophic scar event. Either surgical revision or scar laser therapies are your options to research.
Surgery causes scars and everyone heals differently. If you had uncomplicated healing the first time, it is not likely that cutting the skin there again will have a different result. There are other modalities to try to address poor scars. Some do involve revising the scar but adding other compounds to the scar treatment at that time and subsequently. Even radiation therapy is sometimes used. All have their advantages and disadvantages and NONE of them can guarantee improvement. Many patients ultimately choose tattooing some design in this situation.
Hello!This appears to be a hypertrophic scar. The difference revolves around the extent of scarring outside of the original incision. In this case the vertical component of your abdominoplasty scar appears to have widened but remains along the original incision. Steroid treatment is certainly a good starting place but if this has been attempted and the result is not satisfactory to you then surgical revision may be your next step.
Thank you for your question! For my patients having any procedure, I recommend that they stop any form of nicotine use and vaping for 4 weeks prior to surgery, and 6 weeks post surgery. Best of luck!
If there is diastasis or a hernia that developed, you can have it repaired. You may benefit from having a plastic surgeon and general surgeon work together in light of your ileosotomy and previous surgery. Timing is important to discuss; since you just had surgery I would avoid going...
Dear NeedCurves,Thank you for your question. It looks like you may be s"spitting sutures". Some people react with more inflammation to the buried dissolvable sutures than others. Just follow th wound care advice from your surgeons office; we typically advise warm compresses and neopsoirn oi...
