How does scar revision surgery work?
To learn how scar revision surgery works, you must first understand what makes a scar visible. A scar is oftentimes noticeable because it is an obvious straight line that your eye can easily follow. One of the principles of scar revision is to transform that straight line into a complicated, irregularized line (see next question) so that your eye simply has a very hard time following that line even with close inspection. The second reason a scar is visible is that the scar is darker or lighter than the surrounding skin color. Dark color fades over time, whereas a light color incision line will most likely need to be removed and resutured following the good principles of scar revision. Third, a scar may be visible because the incision line or the area adjacent to it is depressed or raised, a so-called contour deformity. The scar will then have to be revised to minimize or eliminate this contour problem. Another reason that a scar is unfavorable in appearance is that the scar tethers a n
