{"id":164,"date":"2009-06-25T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T23:31:25","slug":"hair-restoration-scar-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/hair-restoration-scar-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Restoration Scar Revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For previous hair transplant patients, scar revision is the process of correcting or minimizing the scar appearance left after a hair transplant procedure.<span> <\/span>In the case of a patient email we received, his scar seems to be a bit wider on one side compared to the other.<span> <\/span>His transplant was performed in a different clinic and the result of the wide scar was of natural effect.<span> <\/span>He asks, &#8220;Is it better to do only half and not touch the good side so to speak?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are a couple of techniques that can be used to correct this issue.<span> <\/span>The most common is a simple excision and closure of the scar which may reduce the scar&#8217;s width.<span> <\/span>Considering the scar is behind the neck area, BOTOX can be applied to prevent future stretching.<span> <\/span>Some patients may require what is known as trichophytic closure which allows hair to grow into the scar further minimizing the appearance of the scar.<span> <\/span>Finally, the most effective way of eliminating scar visibility is by means of an FUE (follicular unit extraction) procedure to fill in the scar left behind by the strip procedure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The maturation or completely healing of a scar is a timely occurrence.<span> <\/span>Scars can sometimes take as long as 6 months to fully develop and can continue to evolve even after that time but at a slower rate.<span> <\/span>Because of how long scars can take to fully develop, we avoid during any type of scar revision surgery until at least 6 months after wound closure. We offer free donor scar revision consultation at our <a title=\"Orange County hair restoration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/orange-county-hair-transplant.php?id=32\">Orange County hair restoration office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For previous hair transplant patients, scar revision is the process of correcting or minimizing the scar appearance left after a hair transplant procedure. In the case of a patient email we received, his scar seems to be a bit wider on one side compared to the other. His transplant was performed in a different clinic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,111,37,445,21,19],"tags":[138,112,139,140,114,141,142,143,144,287],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-hair-transplant","category-donor-scar","category-hair-transplant","category-hair-transplant-procedure","category-men-hair-restoration","category-orange-county-hair-transplant","tag-botox","tag-donor-scar-revision","tag-follicular-unit-extraction","tag-fue","tag-hair-transplant-donor-scar","tag-hair-transplant-scar-revision","tag-scar-revision","tag-stretched-scar","tag-strip-procedure-scar","tag-trichophytic-closure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}