November 30 2006, 12:33 pm PT | Posted in: Repair + Scarring
I am sending this message, wondering about scar revision surgery on the scalp. I have extensive scarring from a surgery when I was younger. I was born with a hairy nevis on my head and had to get it removed…all this happened before I could remember. I now have been living with the scars ever since. The doctor who did the surgery did a great job because the scarring isn’t terribly bad. It’s probably about a 1/4 inch (maybe smaller) in size and runs pretty much the length of my scalp forking off in the front and back, with the front fork being considerably smaller than the back one. I am 20 years old now and have been wanting to have something done about this ever since grade school when kids would make fun of me when i got my hair cut short. I know it’s not possible to completely remove the scar but after all the strechting that has been done to my scalp is there anyway to “hide” it better with some sort of surgery/hair transplant??? What about z-plasty???
ALL surgical cuts will leave a scar (as it did on your case). A Z-plasty is an elegant approach to reduce the size of the scar, but you will still be left with a Z-plasty scar. In either case, a hair transplant procedure works wonderfully when transplanted into such scars, but before I point you in that direction, you need to have an expert look at the scars and examine your head. Please send pictures and I would be happy to review your case (please reference this blog posting when sending the photos).
I had a scar at the back of my head, I secured the scar when I knock the back of my head on the concrete floor at about 12 years ago. I wasn’t taken to the hospital when the incidence occured and I suffered severe headache for at least 8 years after the incidence. Though, am left with little more headache as my writting this message.
The scars never bleed and the swollen on the affected area has now become tough and part of my skin.
No colour change at the affected area but I have completely lost the hair on the affected area since 2 weeks after the incident.
I come from poor background and I found no way out this shame scars since then.
I have been living a restricted live since the incidence but am now tired and fed up of this irrational life am living.
I have never enjoyed my youth and I even cant concentrate in my university because people keep asking me what the scars is, all eyes be on me in the lecture room and I have lost 3 partners as a result of this unwanted scars on the back of my head.
I will like the scar area minimised and my hair restored if possible.