Vitiligo is a common skin disease, is a local skin melanocyte deficiency, manifested as a complete loss of acquired pigmentation, into a milky white spot, can occur in any part, the white spot in the hair can be depigmented white. Vitiligo does not have any conscious symptoms and subjective discomfort, nor does it cause direct damage to the body, but the indecent appearance often brings serious mental stress and mental burden to patients. Due to the unknown cause and the difficulty of treatment, vitiligo is still one of the key diseases studied in the international dermatological community.
The course of vitiligo includes progressive and stationary phases.
The resting stage of vitiligo shows a fixed size and no new white spots, often responding poorly to medication and phototherapy, when a surgical treatment method can be used – suction blister method epidermal transplantation. It is to transplant the patient’s own normal pigmented skin to the white spot area, so that the white spot area pigment regeneration, this method of high efficiency. To use an analogy, vitiligo is a wasteland, no seeds (melanocytes), lack of fertilizer (immune abnormalities), drug treatment is like adding fertilizer to the ground, creating various conditions suitable for the growth of seeds, promoting the growth of residual melanocytes, surgery is to transplant the good seeds – melanocytes over, with the assistance of drugs, grow and multiply. This method is especially suitable for patients with resting vitiligo in exposed areas of the face and neck. Post-surgery is combined with medication or phototherapy for the best treatment results.