Areola scar after breast lift. Do I need a revision surgery to fix it?

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...

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...

Our treatments use combination therapy to improve the epidermis and dermis for most deep scars. The options available for acne scars depend on the character of your scars, in terms of topography and contour. We see atrophic and hypertrophic acne scars, as well as scars that have hypo and...

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...

Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...

Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...