I Had a Large Scar After My 2600 Grafts, Why and What Do I Do About It? (Photo)
This is indeed a very wide scar from a single surgery.
This happens for many reasons:
- The scar is low and may have been made into the nape of the neck, which always stretches if that is the case. That alone can produce a wide scar.
- The wound was tense during closure because your scalp was too tight. So, when the surgeon pulled the tight edges together, it could cause a wide scar.
- There are other technical and genetic factors that cause wide scarring, some of which are not the surgeon’s fault. It is just the way collagen is made by your body. Some collagen has more elastin fibers which stretch quite a bit.
The treatment would depend on where the scar was in relation to the neck. If it was in the neck area, then a scar reduction would not work. If it was in the scalp area and not the nape of the neck, it is possible that a scar revision might help reduce the scar. One reliable way to camouflage the scar is with Scalp MicroPigmentation (see: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/scar-covering/)
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