Laser Scar Removal After Plastic Surgery

Thanks to recent advancements in medicine lasers are becoming a dermatologist s go to treatment for many scars.

Laser scar removal after plastic surgery. Laser treatment cannot get rid of a scar. Increase your range of motion if a scar limits movement. Instead they re designed to make a scar appear less noticeable. Discoloration or surface irregularities and other more subtle scars can be cosmetically improved by surgery or other treatments recommended by your plastic surgeon.

Laser treatment can also make a. Prevent a raised scar from forming after surgery. The surgery takes anywhere from a few minutes to an hour and a half. Deeper scars require surgery.

Scar revision is plastic surgery performed to improve the condition or appearance of a scar anywhere on your body. Laser scar treatments don t make a scar disappear. Nonsurgical methods include injectable fillers for concave scars light therapy lasers dermabrasion and chemical peels. Sometimes general anesthesia is used.

The body begins the process of repairing a wound after a skin injury. We treat patients of all ages including young children through laser therapies and injectable treatments designed for. Reduce scar pain and itch. There s a variety of scar treatment options.

Scar removal is actually a bit of a misnomer because scars can t be removed completely but they can be made less visible.