Both injuries as well as in cosmetic surgery plays an important role in wound healing. She is disturbed, are often large and ugly scars. The medicine now has many new ways of preventing scar formation or in the case of scars already incurred, such a way that an aesthetically significantly improved picture.
Scarring arise when injuries or surgical wounds by the upper skin layer, the epidermis, through into lower layers of skin. . In this case, a complete restoration of the skin no longer exists. for example by smooth cuts, forming a narrow, barely visible scar. .A variety of reasons, such as in large-scale injury or wound, healing can result in disturbances, during which most conspicuous scarring arise.
For the prevention and treatment of such aesthetic scar deformities can now depending on the initial injury, localization and form non-operational and operational procedures for obtaining the best possible outcome effectively be combined:
Compression therapy for prevention
So that those affected will not suffer under excessive scarring, it is advisable for certain injuries or starting individual circumstances from the outset, preventive measures. A compression or pressure therapy may be used if the risk of the formation of hypertrophy. scarring and large proliferations (in the jargon keloids) exists. Affected are, for example, patients undergoing extensive injuries such as burns, skin disease have. Customized shirts or elastic compression stockings exert pressure on the affected skin from bodies. . The resulting lack of oxygen prevents excessive collagen formation, which cultigens scars and may lead proliferations.
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September 20th, 2008
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