How effective are surgical stitches alone to close traumatic injuries? Will it leave scars later? How should scars be removed?

Simple surgical suturing of traumatic injuries is very effective, but the sutures will leave scars in the later stages, scars can be removed by applying medications to get rid of scars. Surgical suturing also requires cleanliness and careful care. After the inflammation collapses, the scars will become worse and scars will develop.

One, how to remove scars from surgical stitches

One month after the surgery, you can use scar removal medication, which can be purchased at your local pharmacy or plastic surgery. You can also perform palm massage to promote local blood circulation and accelerate metabolism. The specific method is three times a day, 5-10 minutes each time. And, with the external application, you can use ginger to apply ginger on the scars, dry the ginger juice and apply it on the scars, or choose carrots, carrots on the scars, which can play a role in lightening the scars. Surgical stitches scars are similar in shape to centipede scars. There are some protrusions within the scar. In this case, a combination of laser excision or treatment with a little black cloth ointment and microneedling can also be used to improve the local fibrous connective tissue alignment disorder, and then use it along with mucopolysaccharide cream to improve the treatment, which can be significantly improved. Cosmetic patch topical application is also an option.

Two, the method and effect of surgical suture

Clinically, the method of surgical suture generally includes the following three kinds: intermittent suture, generally gastrointestinal anastomosis followed by intermittent suture to strengthen the anastomosis or skin suture. For skin sutures, this generally includes intermittent urethral sutures to prevent poor anastomosis of the incision. The figure-of-eight or purse-string suture is seen primarily in the appendix stump and is used primarily to plastinate the appendix in order to embed the stump or when the appendix stump is too large for a continuous suture. Continuous sutures, generally used in the case of vascular injury or vascular rupture, can be used to achieve no leakage or narrowing, and also to avoid skin incisions, and continuous sutures reduce scar formation.

In summary, the effect of simple surgical suture trauma is very good, but after simple surgical suture trauma, usually leave scars, as for the treatment of scars, need to depend on the situation, scarring symptoms can be used under the premise of light scarring ointment, scars can be serious laser to remove.