6 Scar Treatments

Daniel P. Friedmann, Michael Zumwalt, and Vineet Mishra

Summary

Numerous safe and effective therapies for improving scar appearance are currently available. Treatment paradigms, however, vary significantly between scar types, with hypertrophic, atrophic, and burn scars benefiting from different combination therapies. This chapter presents a detailed overview of these varying treatment approaches to scars.

Key words

pulsed dye laser - intense pulsed light - nonablative fractional laser resurfacing - ablative fractional laser resurfacing - bipolar fractional radiofrequency - hypertrophic scar - keloid scar - atrophic acne scar

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