2007-05-27 04:00:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
No.
Scar tissue (on the skin) is of a couple of types, I am assuming you mean a full thickness scar. That would be a scar that reaches down to the layers of skin that generate new cells.
If you imagine skin growing from inward to outward as outer skin wears away, you can see the problem. To replace the space where a scar fills a gap, you would have to grow skin cells sideways, from the edges because there isn't any growing tissue beneath that area.
The best you could do is remove the scar either by cutting it out or abrading it (wearing it away) and allowing new skin to regrow from the edges. Unfortunately, for a scar of any real size, the skin cells on the edges would grow, but not replace all the different cell types that were missing. This is because only certain cell types are 'mobile' enough to fill the gap.
Remember, at microscopic scales (the scale of individual cells) that 'gap' is huge.
Another try would be to replace the scar with a skin graft. But skin grafting has it's own set of problems. You may have seen in burn patients how grafts turn out, they almost always have their own set of scars at the edges.
Finally, you could cut out the scar and pull the lowermost, growing layer of skin together an allow the area to heal slowly (slowly enough for new skin to form only from beneath and not from the sides). This would work, but would take several weeks and require a sterile and moist environment, and you might still get scarring at the edges of the original scar.
One of the 'solutions' is to get a nice tattoo. Or, over the course of a couple of years, gradually abrade the scar away in very, very tiny increments.
2007-05-27 04:13:53 · answer #1 · answered by xaviar_onasis 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are apparently surface treatments (creams) on the market now that weren't around a few years ago. Don't see how a pill would work on the localized scar area. Massaging was recommended to me as part of physical therapy on my little finger after surgery for multiple breaks.
2007-05-27 04:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vitamin E oils.
2007-05-27 04:08:33 · answer #3 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. (Especially if it's from your laparoscopic cholecystectomy last year.)
It has to cut out or lived with.
Sorry.
2007-05-27 05:59:30 · answer #4 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋