Hello. 33 y.o female. No children (never pregnant). Just noticed this on the underside of my right breast. The skin around the exposed skin is darker, but not a scab. I did wear a waist trainer yesterday that was apparently too tight, and caused the marks on my side (posted below) that I haven't put back on. I wore a Sports bra and don't see how the trainer could've mad contact with one of my breast (me not both) so I'm feeling like this is an older occurrence as it not sensitive to touch.
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Answer: Recommend doing laser treatment to help flatten out the scars
The exact agent(s), concentration(s) and amounts--whether of triamcinolone and/or 5-FU needs to be determined by your response to treatment in the hands of an experienced scar specialist. What I can say after more than three decades of treating these kinds of scars and publishing a paper on...
In my opinion, post surgical scars are often very treatable. They respond very well to fractionated lasers. It may take 3-5 treatments but it will improve both the tone and texture of a post-surgical scar.
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...
