Scar corrections

Often obvious scars on the body surface can occur after the injuries and other accidents such as burns. Operations are also always followed by scars. The scar appearance depends on personal disposition to wound healing in the same way as on the kind of injury and scar placement on the skin surface. By operations it is strained after the maximally unobvious scarring by means of relevant incision and suture techniques.

Different factors have diverse influence on the scarring. Here the wound depth, the blood supply of the wound area, thickness and colour of your skin and the scar placement in relation to the skin strain lines are included. Clear and smooth wound edges that follow the operation heal easier then blunt, probably jagged or bruising wound edges that can occur by blunt traumas.

It is not possible to remove the scar operative completely; however the experienced plastic surgeons can often manage to hide the scar,

to enhance it or at least to make it unobvious. Along with taking medicines and other medical devices there are established operative methods for the scar correction that can lead to good results at your personal, thoroughly considered application case.

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Indication:

All the scars on the whole body skin, keloids, hypertrophic scars, scar contractures, face scars.

Operation:

Here the special operation techniques should be mentioned which partially require a special incision technique.

For example, the Z-Plastic, other different skin grafting techniques or the skin transplantation possibility belong to them.

Z - Plastic is a plastic-surgical method for better integration of scar into the natural strain lines of the skin. Also while scar stretching the tissue loosening and thus the significant enhancement of appearance and the function as well can be achieved. Whether the Z-Plastic is appropriated for the treatment of individual scar or not is the decision of plastic surgeon, because the Z-Plastic is a method suitable not for all kinds of scars.

As other methods for optimal plastic-surgical treatment of large scar areas the skin flaps techniques and skin transplantations (skin grafting) can be required. The skin transplantation includes the extraction of healthy skin flap from the suitable, possibly not visible part of the body for covering the defect on the injured or deformed body part. Usually transplantation of the own skin is successful and the skin accretes on the new place under the ingrowing of blood vessels. The skin transplantation is associated with occurrence of scars at the places of extracting and inserting of skin.

As another complex plastic-surgical method of treatment a possibility of free flaps plastic in relevant individually determined form is in your disposal. In this case the skin with underneath lied tissue, if necessary also with muscle tissue, is transplanted from healthy place of body for covering the injury-caused defect.

Anaesthesia:

The scar correction is usually performed under local anaesthesia and/or in light half-sleep, can be also done if desired or needed under general anaesthesia.

Clinic stay:

These are normally outpatient operations; the inpatient stay is also possible.

After-care:

The after-care will be individually determined by us depending on the localization and extent of the operation.

Slight pains, later drawing pain or burning during the wound area healing aren't unusual. Typically these disturbances can be remedied by immobilization and relevant medicines. The bandage certainly should be worn exactly according to the surgeon's instructions. Normally the skin stitches will be removed within 1-2 weeks.

The end effect of scar correction depends on the type, size and placement of the scar, on the individual wound healing as well as on post-operative protection and on the appropriate scar after-care.

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