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How to optimise scarring results in skin surgery

By Skin Cancer Institute |October 21, 2022

In this short video, Associate Professor Tony Dicker gives his top tips for how to optimise and improve scarring results for patients following skin surgery, particularly skin cancer surgery.

Watch the short video now:

 

 

In the video, A/Prof Dicker gives practical advice for improving scarring outcomes on various areas of the body.

He explains how to use the natural lines and contours of the skin to better disguise scars, the use of dissolvable sutures to minimise stretching scars, and taping the skin for best results.

Watch all this and much more in the full video above!

Topics: skin cancer surgery, scarring

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