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Originally Posted by da_cat
I'm not so sure they won't ever disappear. I've had scars that have eventually completely vanished i.e there's no sign they were ever there no matter how close you look or under what shade of light.
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The appearnce of scar depends on many factors; patient's age, skin type, surgeon's technique, suture type etc. I try to use subcuticular suture technique whenever I can to minimize scar width... while some of my colleagues use staples. If we do a good job, the surgical scars will fade away in appearance...but histologically, the scar won't ever go away.
Some of my patients are keloid-formers, meaning they develop ugly, hypertrophic scars whatever we do.
Another thing you have to remember is, stretch marks are very different from surgical incisions in etiology as well as histologically.
Do you guys want to make this a stickey? I don't think there's much more for me to say about the darn subject.