While postoperative therapies help tissue heal faster, in many cases where scars remain visible, a surgical procedure called “scar revision” may be required. For patients also affected by discoloration, there are non-surgical concealing therapies that may be practical alternatives to surgical scar revision procedures. Let’s look at both options:

Surgical Scar Revision

Scar revision operations may be scheduled two / three months after a facelift, breast augmentation / reduction, other operation that may have left unwanted scarring. The scars may be removed through surgical procedures involving skin grafts or skin expansion therapies{whereby a balloon is inserted under the skin and slowly expanded as skin grows over} or with less invasive methods like dermabrasion to make irregularities less noticeable. However, when scars are not nodules / keloids, but obvious due to skin discoloration, there’s an alternative therapy that’s effective and affordable called micropigmentation tattooing.

Scar Camouflage Micropigmentation Tattooing Therapies

Therapies involving micropigmentation tattooing can be highly effective at restoring natural flesh-tone colors to areas that have lost pigment due to surgery. Many scars turn white, leading to patchy areas, which can’t be helped by more surgery because the problem may be caused by an absence of melanin in the scarred region.

Corrective Tattoos

To correct discoloration, expert paramedical micropigmentologists can use pigments to create customized tattoos over scars and thereby make them less noticeable. These therapeutic tattoos are designed to camouflage, not eliminate, the scarring, but many cosmetic surgeons recommend this treatment.

Micropigmentation tattooing services are often offered at clinics that specialize in cosmetic surgery and where scar revision, laser therapies and other treatments to rejuvenate skin are provided in hygienic medical facilities. The tattoos recommended by surgeons, and carried out by paramedical micropigmentologists, employ equipment and pigments used in the body art / permanent makeup fields. Nevertheless, mixing flesh-tones and applying them flawlessly is an art that requires a micropigmentation tattooing expert trained in medical scar camouflage.