SCARS

Many people have unaesthic or undesirable scars on their body consequent to different causes: previous surgeries, accidents, childhood cuts, emergency surgeries, furuncles, burns, etc.  
 
There is a popular belief that claims that if you go to a plastic surgeon he removes it, and it will disappear together with the scar. 
 
This is a myth that has to be properly clarified: once a scar is produced in the human body it will exist for a lifetime. The plastic surgeon achieves better scars because he uses techniques, materials and appropriate threads, and knows where to place the scars, choosing the well known areas and directions where they have more chances of becoming unapparent or less perceptible and not very important.
 
In certain aesthetic surgeries, as in the case of breast surgeries and abdominoplasties, the surgeon will obtain the best possible scars due to suitable techniques, but they will always exist and will be more or less important according to the body of each patient.
  
The treatment of undesirable scars consists of re-doing them with more selective techniques, changing their direction, “breaking them” with a specific technique (zetaplasties) or still, injecting them with fractional doses of corticoids of long duration, a procedure that should be performed by doctors that dominate the extension of the dosages.
  
Laser and abrasion (peeling) of the scar, although popularly considered as solutions, are not treatments adapted for scars. The exceptions are: certain kinds of laser that may improve particular types of tattoos and mechanical peeling (abrasion), which sometimes is convenient on the neighboring areas of the scar to be removed by incisions and thus provide better results.