Orange County Cosmetic Surgery: Will There Be Scars, Doctor?

June 28, 2010 - PRLog -- “Where will my scars be, doctor?”

Part of the art of performing cosmetic plastic surgery is knowing where to hide scars, when possible.

But even if surgical marks are left in plain sight, most patients take additional comfort knowing the large majority of scars lighten and fade to near invisibility in about a year.

In facial plastic surgery, the scars from upper eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) are concealed in the natural folds above the eyelids. The incisions for lower blepharoplasty are now largely made through the mouth or the conjunctiva (the pink area seen when pulling your lower eyelid down), leaving no scar at all.

For a face lift, the scar is in the wrinkles and folds in front of the ear, dipping below it and then up again into the scalp where it’s hidden by hair.

A neck lift is done from an incision on the chin’s bottom side, facing your shoes.

Depending on the type of cosmetic breast surgery, a scar may be located in:

The bottom half of the areola, the brown area surrounding the nipple
The crease under the breast where it meets the chest wall
The folds of the belly button
The armpit
Scars for breast reductions are much longer and can be hidden under the bra or swimwear.

For a mini-tummy tuck, the resulting scar will be shorter and easily hidden within underwear or swim suits. But if it’s a standard tummy tuck the resulting scar may run from hip to hip.

The only patients who must endure serious scarring are body shaping patients who usually consider some longer scars a welcome trade-off for trimming away the large amounts of loose, flapping skin left after massive weight loss.

Longer scars usually appear:

On the underside of arms from the armpit to the elbow
Across the stomach and sometimes, all the way around the body
On the inside of the leg from the pubis to the knee
On the breasts, from the top of the mound down to the nipple.
Liposuction scars are among the first to disappear from sight — those scars are round and small, usually no more than 1/8th of an inch across.

But if any one scar becomes a problem, plastic surgeons are trained to treat it separately.

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