There are some scars that are not very large in size, and in the process of solving the appearance of the scar, if the method of excision followed by implantation is used, the same post-implantation patch-like scar will be left in the future, and the desired effect will not be achieved, so the method of expansion can be used, and expansion has been explained earlier. However, expansion requires that the patient has sufficient time to cooperate with the doctor for a long time, from 1-2 months to 6 months or even a year, and some patients do not have such time and energy, so what can we do? So it is also possible to perform a staged excision and suturing of the scar.
Some smaller scars can be excised and sutured together directly using the elasticity of the surrounding normal skin or sutured directly using various plastic surgery techniques, so that the preoperative lamellar scar becomes a linear scar to reduce the scar area and make it inconspicuous. However, if the skin is not elastic enough to be pulled together and sutured after a one-time excision, we can first excise a part of the scar to ensure that the wound formed after excising the scar can be pulled together and sutured directly using the skin elasticity. Direct suturing. This can be repeated to remove larger scars. The advantage is that each operation is less traumatic, the treatment period is short, and it only takes 2 weeks each time to resume normal life, with little impact on work and life and study, and students can use their summer and winter vacations to complete each operation. In fact, the principle is basically the same as dilatation, except that dilatation uses artificial expansion to make the skin elasticity expand acutely, while the split excision and suture method uses the human’s own repair ability to make the skin elasticity recover slowly. Of course, there are many scar repair methods, and dilatation and fractional excision suture are only two of them. Patients can choose the appropriate scar repair method according to their condition and doctor’s advice.