Everybody wants to have a smooth and beautiful skin, but life is unpredictable, and damage the skin no one is immune. Minor damage often leave no trace after healing, but sometimes in memory of the scratches, wounds and inflammations are scars. Correction of scars can return attractive skin smooth and soft.

Modern methods of dealing with scars

Tripe is the formation of connective tissue that occurs during the healing process of the skin after injury or inflammation. Scar tissue differs from normal skin - it contains a lot of collagen, is highly sensitive to ultraviolet light, stiff and has no hair follicles. As a result, the scars may stand out from the healthy skin.

Well, if the scar is small and located in inconspicuous place. Scars on the face, neck and other exposed parts of the body can be a real tragedy for its owner. Fortunately, modern cosmetology helps to correct the scars and make them virtually invisible.

In the arsenal of cosmetologists, there are many ways to combat scars. These methods include:

• Treatment liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery);
• Use bandages or crushing of silicon wafers;
• Pharmacological treatment (hormonal and enzyme preparations);
• Dermabrasion (mechanical grinding scars);
• Grinding using a laser;
• Cellular technology.

Sometimes scar correction are used as chemical peels. However, this method is only effective for the treatment of fresh scars, age not more than six months.

It should be noted that to date there is no universal way to get rid of the scars once and for all, but modern technology allows to make the scars on the skin almost imperceptible. In each case, the correction method is selected individually.

Problem and Solution

There are four types of scars: normotroficheskie, hypertrophic, atrophic and keloid. Normotroficheskie scars practically do not change the relief surface of the skin, have a lighter shade, and reduced sensitivity. Such scars are slightly different from the surrounding skin color and elasticity.

Improve the appearance of scars normotroficheskie can use a competent conservative therapy. For example, the imposition of resorbable silicon wafers prevents the formation of excess keloid tissue and thus helps prevent the formation of hypertrophic and keloid scars. Laser polishing helps to smooth the outline of the scar and make it less contrast with the surrounding tissue. For fresh scars less than six months of age is well exposed and chemical peels.

Correction of atrophic scars

If the reaction of the connective tissue to injury is reduced, and collagen is produced is not enough, there are atrophic, that is inverted scars. Such scars are lighter shade and approach to healthy tissue elasticity, but they are located below the level of the surrounding skin. Often atrophic scars occur after healing of small inflammations such as acne Acne   or chicken pox.

For correction of atrophic scars laser resurfacing is very effective. Often used as Dermabrasion - mechanical polishing, which allows to align the relief of the skin and make the scar less noticeable. Also, various gels based on collagen, which are introduced into the skin and the like is filled inside the rumen. Efficiency can be lipofilling - introduction to scar patient's own fat.

Hypertrophic scars

The adverse conditions in the enhanced healing of connective tissue reactions may occur hypertrophic scars. Such scars are raised above the level of healthy skin. Shade of scars often pink or red on the surface may be small cracks. Often, these scars may be accompanied by itching. Usually, hypertrophic scars occur where tissue is constantly squeezed or stretched. Usually, scars appear for a month after the injury, and further grow, or, on the contrary, decreased.

For the prevention of hypertrophic scars applied silicone gels. Such gels also help improve the appearance of scars already formed. Good effect and skin resurfacing. Large, sometimes disfiguring skin scars surgically removed - an operation that produces scar excision followed by suturing and wound under the supervision of a physician.

Keloids

Some people due to the enhanced response of connective tissue to injury keloid scars occur. Such scars are dramatically above the level of healthy skin and tend to grow: over time, their size can significantly exceed the size of the earlier injury. Keloids have a purple hue and elastic consistency, and their appearance and growth is usually accompanied by unpleasant sensations: burning, itching and pain. These scars will never disappear on their own and do not decrease, they are considered a serious cosmetic defects.

Treatment of keloids often carried out by means of cryotherapy and corticosteroids. Cryosurgery allows destroying the diseased tissue grown up - this method has been used successfully for the treatment of various tumors such as moles Moles:: tags fate or bombs? , Warts and scars. As a result, the size of keloid scars is significantly reduced, the skin becomes smooth. The disadvantages of this method is the long period of healing and pigmentation in the scar site.

Corticosteroid injections can reduce the synthesis of collagen and inflammatory mediators. As a rule, this method is used in conjunction with cryotherapy Cryotherapy . The method has practically no contraindications and helps to effectively deal with keloids.

Maria Bykov