Scar and Stretch Marks

Scars and stretch marks can form unsightly marks on our skin, often leaving permanent marks and will not go away or fade without intervention.

Stretch marks can form from sudden growth or weight gain, often seen in pregnancy, and sometimes form in teenagers during puberty, they can be unsightly particularly if they form different coloured striations to your own skin that makes them more prominent. Stretchmarks are best treated soon after occurrence, for patients who are left with unsightly stretchmarks after delivering their child, we recommend to start the treatment of those stretchmarks 6 months after delivery.

1. Normal fine-line scars- A minor wound like a cut will usually heal to leave a raised line, which will gradually fade and flatten over time. This process can take up to 2 years. The scar will not disappear completely and you'll be left with a visible mark or line. Fine-line scars are common following a wound or after surgery. They are not usually painful, but they may be itchy for a few months.
2. Keloid scars- A keloid scar is an overgrowth of tissue that happens when too much collagen is produced at the site of a wound. The scar keeps growing, even after the wound has healed. Keloid scars are raised above the skin and can be pink, red, the same colour or darker than surrounding skin. They're often itchy or painful. Sometimes this type of scar can restrict movement if they're tight and near a joint.
3. Hypertrophic scars- Like keloid scars, hypertrophic scars are the result of excess collagen being produced at the site of a wound. Unlike keloid scars, hypertrophic scars do not extend beyond the boundary of the original wound. They may continue to thicken for up to 6 months before gradually improving over a few years.
4. Pitted or sunken scars- Some skin conditions, such as acne and chickenpox, can cause sunken or pitted scars. Pitted scars, also known as atrophic or "ice-pick" scars, develop when an injury damages underlying fat.

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) intradermal injection treatment is a procedure we use, in combination with microneedling and vitamin C topical infusion for rebuilding the skin in the area affected by scars or stretch marks, by using the healing properties of a patient’s own blood and growth factors to enhance the body’s ability to rebuild damaged skin and injury to achieve scar and stretch mark reduction naturally. This treatment normally requires 3 to 6 sessions to achieve sufficient scar/stretch mark reduction to meet most patient’s expectations.