Cosmetic Surgeon Way to Heal Your Facial Scars

 

Injuries leave scars. You have to remember that these scars are a sign that your body is healing from that particular injury. However, if that injury occurs on your face and leaves facial scars, it hurts. The facial scars can reduce your confidence and have a drastic impact on the way you are feeling. The way these scars will look has various factors affecting them starting from your age, gender, ethnicity.

Apart from the scars resulted from injuries, there are scars that come from acne. The pimples, pus boils that you get on your face can also leave acne scars, marks that will affect the way you look. Here are some of the types of scars that can occur on your face-

●     Keloid Scars: The Keloid scars will have maximum impact on your skin. They are often misshapen and grow beyond the injured place. One thing about these Keloid scars is that they won’t fade away with time and have higher chances of messing up your entire skin.

●     Hypertrophic Scars: These scars won’t go beyond the point of injury. They are often in pink or red in color. They are very commonly occurring types of scars.

●     Acne Scars: Although there are so many people who are least bothered about these scars, they are going to have a great impact on your facial skin. These scars can be of different types. Blemishes, black spots, boxcar scars, rolling scars, and icepick scars. The icepick scars will get deep into your skin.

●     Contractual Scars: These scars occur when your skin is burned or subjected to tightening. It will not only scar your skin but also hamper the movement of your face at times.

Cosmetic surgeons usually offer three types of facial scars treatment -

●     Laser resurfacing

●     Dermal fillers

●     Surgical correction

In this article, we are going to discuss in-depth these three types of scar removal treatments.

Laser Resurfacing for Facial Scars

Laser resurfacing is an advanced and highly preferred treatment by patients for scar removal. As said, scars are of different types so each of them is addressed with various kinds of laser treatments. It can treat raised and pitted scars and also the combination of both. It is important for the patients to be extremely careful after getting laser treatment. The results will take some time to show and they have to take care of their face until then. The usual time is taken by laser treatment to show results will be one week. It may be more than that in some cases.

Dermal Fillers

As the name suggests, dermal fillers will be injected into your skin. The pitted acne scars that form a space kind of thing on your skin will be treated with dermal fillers. These dermal fillers are injected into the pitted scar which will make skin there look plump and evens it out. The dermal fillers are made up of different kinds of ingredients depending upon the issue that surgeons are addressing.

Hyaluronic acid and collagen are two important ingredients that are mostly used in fillers. These fillers will also help in getting rid of wrinkles.

Surgical Correction

Surgical correction or scar revision is another important option that you can look out for if your scar is because of any previous surgery. There are so many surgeries that may leave a mark on your face. These kinds of scars can be addressed with scar revision method.

The cosmetic surgeons will opt for skin grafting which means extracting skin from someplace in your body and using it on the scar place. They can also go for reclosing the scar with advanced surgical procedures.

So, if you are suffering from facial scars, then these are some of the surgical options that you have. When it comes to face, it is always important to go with a trusted option like Contours Plastic and Aesthetic Center.