If I have a very thin piece of scar tissue on my skin, and then I surgically cut the skin open right along the middle of the scar, and ensure that I do all the best scar healing practises (like holding the skin on either side of the wound together), what will happen? Will the scar get smaller or bigger?

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 days ago

    I would place a bet on “makes it worse” right now.

    Dermatologists have some kind of magic shot that makes them go away. The top of my shoulder was covered in a nasty, lumpy scar from a childhood injury. After 2 rounds of shots and a few years time, you can only tell it was there because it tans different than the surrounding skin.