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Scar Revision and Dermabrasion

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Ideal facial scars when matured should be narrow, flat, and parallel to relaxed skin tension lines or along boundaries of facial subunits. Several scar revision techniques can be combined with adjunctive procedures to significantly improve the appearance of unfavorable scars.

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  1. UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, 77380, USA

    James A. Owusu

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  1. Dept of Otolaryngology Head&Neck Surgery, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

    Brian J.-F Wong

  2. Otolaryngology-Dept.of Head&Neck Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

    Michelle G. Arnold

  3. Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Facial Aesthetic Concepts, San Clemente, California, USA

    Jacob O. Boeckmann

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Owusu, J.A. (2016). Scar Revision and Dermabrasion. In: Wong, BF., Arnold, M., Boeckmann, J. (eds) Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18035-9_12

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