Scars may have very numerous origins as: .

• cuts.
• road accident (bicycle, car, pedestrian).
• bites.
• burns.
• surgery.
• sport accident.
• obstetrical traumatisms.

The more often, hidden and little scars are well accepted. Sometimes it is possible to get complications:

• inflammatory evolution (reddish and thick aspect, itching)
• widening.
• deformation of a cutaneous pleat.
• Functionnal interference (fingers essentially).

Surgery may be useful for these problems.

Evolution of a big scar of chin, neck and lip, after road accident. At right , aspect after surgical corrections

 

Necrosis of frontal skin due to an obstetrical traumatism (at the first day of life on left , and at the age of 8 months on right).

Résult 1 moonth after corrective surgery: advancement of two cutaneous frontal flaps after removing of cicatricial tissue.

 

 

Burns may be responsible of functionnal problems, difficult to manage. Surgery is always necessary in case of : bar in a cutaneous pleat, cutaneous retraction of labial commissure or eyelid. Skin grafts and skin expansions may be useful to treat burns, but are difficult to perform on this particular ground.

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