Can a decade of surgical scars be removed?

Surgical scar of more than ten years can be tried to be eliminated by laser, surgical excision and hormone therapy, but since it is an old scar, it can usually be reduced and lightened, but it is difficult to be completely removed. 1. Laser treatment: generally strong pulse laser is used, which is suitable for relatively superficial surgical scar, it can lighten the color of the scar and make some of the skin depressions to restore flatness, even if it is an old scar, it also has certain 2. Surgical treatment: surgical scars of more than ten years, especially deeper and larger surgical scars, need to be treated by surgical excision, where the original scar is removed and re-sutured to make the scar as small as possible, or the scar alignment is transformed in the direction of wrinkles to minimize the impact on skin aesthetics as well as function; 3. Other treatments: such as hormone therapy, radiotherapy, etc., can also be used in conjunction with the treatment of surgical scars, such as Keloid scars caused by surgery are a special type of keloid scars and require a combination of treatment methods such as surgical excision with radiotherapy as well as hormone therapy. Therefore, if a patient has more than 10 years of surgical scars that he/she wants to remove, he/she can consult the dermatology or plastic surgery department of the hospital and be examined and evaluated by the doctor to adopt the appropriate removal method, but it is recommended that the patient’s psychological expectations should not be too high.