There are some things in life that come with a trade off that can’t be avoided, like like plastic surgery and scars. But just because you're left with a scar after surgery doesn’t mean you have to live with it forever.
The ability of Rapid Acoustic Pulse (RAP) technology to reduce keloid and hypertrophic scars may be indicative of a wider range of fibrosis-related indications, according to Soliton.
Some people embrace their scars. Others go to great lengths to hide them or diminish their appearance. The good news is it’s never too late to try to minimize those marks if they bother you.
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Botox is to plastic surgery what coconut oil is to beauty. It seemingly does everything. Now, doctors say it might even help stop scars from forming after plastic surgery.
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In patients undergoing reconstructive surgery of the face, treatment with botulinum toxin A (BTX-A, or ‘Botox’) can improve the final appearance of surgical scars, reports a clinical trial in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
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A new post-surgical treatment is gaining traction that can genuinely transform the look of your scars—sometimes giving up to 80 percent improvement—and make even the gnarliest, darkest and most tangled up of scars into almost virgin-like skin again.
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Scars are a normal part of life — for now, anyway. In the future, that might not be the case, as researchers have developed a method to eliminate scarring by prompting wounds to heal as normal skin rather than as scar tissue.
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There are some things in life that come with a trade off that can’t be avoided, like like plastic surgery and scars. But just because you’re left with a scar after surgery doesn’t mean you have to live with it forever.
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Surgical scars demonstrated better improvement with a super-pulsed fractional CO2 laser in combination with standard silicone gel treatment as opposed to silicone gel only, according to a study in the August edition of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine (LSM).
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Early treatment of surgical scars with a super-pulsed fractional C02 laser shows promise, according to a recent study.
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It’s only natural to want to understand the ins and outs of your own body’s healing process. Dr. Tanya Kormeili knows that firsthand. In addition to being a Los Angeles-based dermatologist, Kormeili also had a baby via C-section and knows the recovery process all too well.
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A dermatologist has warned against a beauty trend that involves opening the skin’s pores to remove blackheads and “grits.”
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A 2-year-old pro bono program is helping North Korean defectors better assimilate as new residents of South Korea through a unique donation of plastic surgery.
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A new report released by Persistence Market Research, estimates the North America scar treatment market’s value at $3,240.3 million in 2015 and $4,190.6 million by 2022, with a CAGR of 3.8% over the forecast period.
Read MoreFractional laser treatments can help can help treat many of the soldiers who are returning from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with severe burns, according to information presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Society for Lase
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Dry needling can be a useful adjunct to scar reduction
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