Is it possible to remove a "forehead reduction" scar? (photos)

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

All surgeries leave some form of a scar.  There is no way to completely remove a scar.  For forehead reduction scar, you can sometimes have a hair transplant surgery or SMP to disguise the scar.

it's unclear from the pictures what you are referring to. Scars can be revised if they are wide in certain areas or a adding hair grafts in front and through the incision to hide it. good luck

Forehead reduction surgery has improved significantly over recent years. 

A number of techniques can be utilised to improve the scar to make it inconspicuous; a significant advance is the 'trichophytic closure' technique to improve the scar and in fact when this works well the scar should be very difficult to see. The technique involves shelving or staggering the incision so that on closure the two edges are slightly overlapping. One side, the deeper one, still has hair follicles at the base, the overlapping one rides over these. After healing progresses the hair follicles on the now covered deeper layer will grow out of the skin with the objective that they grow through the scar itself, thereby effectively concealing it. Sometimes there is a delay in the hair regrowing as the shock of surgery can put follicles into a sleeping phase or into a slower growing phase. Your pictures suggest that the scars are still in an early phase of healing. You may wish to discuss this with your surgeon. If, after allowing sufficient time for healing to complete there is still a visible scar it should be possible to revise it and improve the result in this fashion.

I hope that this information is helpful.

best wishes in your recovery.

The best way to treat this is with a hair transplant in front of the scar to hide it so no one can see it. If works very effectively as I have done many

The three pictures appear to be 3. Different cases or pictures taken at different stages of healing. If a scar is noticeable  6-12 months after forehead reduction surgery,  it can be revised or covered with hair transplant grafts. The final result should not be a noticeable scar under most styling conditions unless there is an ongoing hair loss situation. 

All scars are permanent

Fortunately you can have hair transplants placed into the scars

Do not be too upset, about 50% of my patients that have hairline lowering  (= forehead reduction) have follow up hair transplants with tremendous success

Good Luck

J VOGEL, MD