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Can You Really Get Rid of a Scar After Surgery?
There's no such thing as erasing a mark on your skin. The best a cosmetic surgeon can do is trade it for a thinner, flatter line placed where a waistband or bathing suit hides it — which is exactly what a tummy tuck does with an old vertical C-section scar.
Dr. James Koehler and Kirstin Jarvis get into the honest gap between removing a scar and improving one, and why every operation leaves a mark no matter how skilled the hands that made it. For a cosmetic surgeon, where that line sits and how it heals is the whole job.
They clear up one of the most common mix-ups in scar talk: a keloid is…
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