Pediatric Dermatologist Vs Pediatric Plastic Surgeon and Scar Treatment

A pediatric plastic surgeon would have more experience on the nature of the scar and best ways to minimize it including revision. On the other hand for pigmentation issues often pediatric dermatologists are more skilled at scars that are darker or that need specialized lasers.

I would see both of them, and consider the options. Thank you for your question and good luck with everything.

The scar on your daughter's face appears to be fairly wide. Was it repaired and by what type of physician.

Typically, one would want to allow this to mature at least a year prior to considering scar revision surgery. In your daughter's situation, it is clear that this scar will always be wide and irregular. The only effective way to treat this would be for surgical scar revision. Therefore, other treatments would be unnecessary, costly, inconvenient and probably further traumatizing for your daughter.

My recommendation, however, would be to wait until she is a little bit older and can better understand what is going on regarding the scar revision allowing for better compliance and a better result. That could be in a year or more.