Treatment of Scars and Cicatrical Tissue

Treatment of scars is a quick and effective procedure, which is carried out with the Сutera Pearl device at ANACOSMA. The course of treatment removes scars regardless of their colour and age forever.

To solve the aesthetic problem of scars, cosmetology offers various methods of treatment:

Therapeutic. Allantoin-based creams and gels are used. This substance retains moisture in the damaged area, stimulates the renewal of epidermal cells. The use of creams and gels provides the result subject to daily use for 6 months or longer, is effective for small isolated defects.

Surgical. During the procedure, under local anaesthesia, a surgeon excises the overgrown connective tissue of the scar. Depending on the size of the defect, cosmetic or regular sutures are applied. The wound is treated with an antiseptic and the healing process begins. The method is outdated, time-consuming, and associated with numerous risks. Surgical way is mostly used to get rid of keloid scars these days, as well as in individual cases significantly deformed other types of scars, some other types of scars.

Laser scar removal. The most rapid and popular method. Laser resurfacing leaves no wounds, the skin is not injured, there is no risk of infection (provided that Pearl technology is used). The effect is easily predicted, and the method is suitable for most scars, regardless of size and location. The method does not require long-term recovery and solves the problem of cosmetic defect in 1-3 procedures.

Resurfacing of scars with a Cutera laser is a multi-step process:

• The impulse is absorbed by the skin pigments. The scar has darker shades than healthy tissue. Hyperpigmentation is brown, burgundy or bluish, which becomes an aesthetic problem. The flash solves the problem of excessive pigmentation in a couple of sessions.
• The laser beam removes the upper layer with hyperpigmented scar skin. Its colour is no longer different of that of the surrounding skin, the surface is levelled.
• A laser flash triggers fibroblasts. These are cells that synthesize elastin and collagen and actively involved in tissue regeneration after injury. The laser starts the process of renewal. Normal tissue of healthy colour grows back on the site of a sinking defect, or a crack. The scar is smoothed out.

Beauticians remind that a positive result after laser resurfacing of the scar can be achieved when clients comply with all recommendations. It is strictly forbidden to remove the healing crust at the site of procedure. Otherwise, an inflammatory process, pathological changes in the connective tissues, and necrosis may begin in its place.

Particularities of the structure and types of scars

Dermatologists and plastic surgeons at ANACOSMA determine the type of scar prior to the laser resurfacing procedure. A scar is a skin area where normal tissue was replaces with connective tissue. Depending on the level of scarring, it can be:

1. Normotrophic. Barely noticeable, not very different in colour from the surrounding skin, do not rise and do not sink on the inside. They are formed at the site of natural skin folds as a result of a surgical incision, burn or wound. A session of laser resurfacing will solve this problem.
2. Atrophic. Formed on the sites of thin layers of subcutaneous fat. Typically atrophic scars are localized on the back of the hand, temples. They develop as a result of animal bites, lesions after furunculosis, chicken pox. Such scars are retracted, sinking skin areas that do not differ in colour or are lighter by a few tones. They are a visible cosmetic defect.
3. Hypertrophic. Defects protruding above the skin. Scars push the edges of the wound, forming a serious cosmetic problem. Often accompanied by inflammation. Doctors at ANACOSMA will relieve inflammation, then resurface the problem area, otherwise augmentation in scar tissue can be provoked.
4. Keloid. They develop when healing is accompanied by pathology. Connective tissue is arranged in chaotic foci. The keloid defect exceeds the size of the injury due to which it was developed. Depending on the nature of growth, scars are active (still growing) and inactive (old defects). Symptoms of growing scars: itching, pain, loss of sensation in the scar area, redness, or cyanosis. Most often, keloid scars develop on the earlobes, décolletage, and shoulders. This is the only type of scars for which laser resurfacing is prohibited. Impulses can provoke active growth of connective tissue and an increase in size of the defect. The only method to solve the problem is surgical excision of the scar. But surgery can also stimulate the growth of the defect.

That is why professionals at ANACOSMA insist on initial consultation. After a visual inspection, the beautician will determine the duration of the course and name the price of resurfacing, as well as model the future result. Reviews from patients of the clinic indicate that the best resurfacing result is achieved with normotrophic, hypertrophic, and atrophic scars.

Only surgery is able to remove the growth of connective tissue, creams and massages prove to be ineffective.

Benefits of Сutera Pearl

A new generation laser manufactured by the US company Cutera is used to remove the scars of any degree of complexity and localization. The device conducts the procedure:

1. Painlessly. The effect of local anaesthetic will last for one session. No analgesics will be needed after the procedure.
2. Effectively. The laser beam acts only on the connective tissue of the scar, without affecting healthy structures.
3. Alternative to plastic surgery, but without cuts, bruises, and blood spots.