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A scar is Fibrous tissue that forms when normal tissue is destroyed by disease, injury, or surgery. Scar tissue forms when a wound heals after a cut, sore, burn, or other skin condition, or when an incision (cut) is made into the skin during surgery.
The first step is to treat the initial wound well first. This entails proper cleaning, wound dressing and the prevention of infections. Once the skin has healed treatment of the new scar starts.
A common acne scar treatment, dermabrasion removes the top layer of skin by gently “sanding” the skin. The procedure softens and smooths the skin and can improve the appearance of scars.
Your healthcare provider injects medication directly into the scar, making it smaller and flatter. Corticosteroid injections can reduce the size of keloid scars. Your healthcare provider may inject drugs that treat cancer, such as bleomycin (Bleo 15k™) and fluorouracil (Adrucil® or 5-FU), to flatten scars and reduce itching and pain.
Several types of laser and light treatments can make scars (including acne scars) less noticeable. Laser treatments use a particular wavelength of light to cause a particular action in the skin. The V beam is a pulsed dye laser at 595 nm (nanometres) that targets small blood vessels in the skin. Sometimes the scars remain pink or red because the new blood vessels that developed to heal the wound never receded once their job was done. This laser can cauterize the small vessels from the inside out to remove them from the scar and allow the pink or red colour to fade. This action may also help the scar flatten if it’s too thick or thicken if it is too thin. Other lasers (such as the Fraxel laser) can vaporize small columns of tissue within the scar to break up the collagen fibres and allow the scar to remodel and become more flexible. The treatments can also help with pain, itching and sensitivity. Laser treatments may cause hyperpigmentation (skin darkening) or hypopigmentation (skin lightening) in people who have dark skin. Talk to your healthcare provider about side effects before starting treatments.
Micro needling perforates small columns of tissue within the scar to break up the collagen fibres and allow the scar to remodel and become more flexible. It also stimulates new collagen growth.
Losing weight starts with a proper medical assessment by a doctor. This is important to be able to plan and adapt what needs to be done in your specific case to achieve the results needed. The doctor will review your baseline medical conditions and the also monitor progress of these (if indicated your medication will be adapted). Only then the Inbody assessment is done to also combine with the planning of your program. After these has been discussed with you, your eating plan as well as the science behind the change of eating habit and foods are discussed with you.
Weight loss is not a sprint, it is a marathon of well-planned eating changes, food use and repeated follow ups to re-assess progress. Starvation diets and fad diets don’t give long term results. Quick fixes only work for a short period and is not very effective.
There is proof that specific medications enhance weight loss. However not changing your habit and using these at the wrong times will be detrimental to your health and prevent you from changing from overweight to a normal weight for ever. It will be short lived and may result in recurrent weight gain later.
Yes, they help to break down fat. They however don’t work well for sustained permanent weight loss. Used at the wrong time they only have about 15-20% success, where getting them injected by a professional at the right time has a success of 80-90% with a progressive effect as well. The medical professional can then advise on other modalities as well.
The answer is easy, never! After seeing the doctor, you change when you eat, what you eat, how much you eat and when to snack.
From joining the AGJ weight loss program, you don’t ever follow a diet. You change to a sustainable eating habit with the correct calorie intake to sustain you. The motto is “eat for fuel”.
The start is a planned weight loss initial phase, then a maintenance phase. If you desire body sculpting it will happen in the maintenance phase.
If the planned program doesn’t induce weight loss various medical addons will be started.
If all these modalities fail an DNA swab will be done and a genetic profile done to acerating why you don’t lose as you should.
An elastic bandage, dressing or stocking puts pressure on a wound during the healing process. The pressure prevents a scar from forming or decreases its size.
Can also help break up scar tissue and allow it to remodel. This is done with specific scar serum applied to scars. Depending on the time of scar a mature or immature scar serum will be used.
A range of surgical procedures can remove a scar, improve its appearance or transplant skin from another area (skin graft). This is an exchange of one type of scar for a different, more preferable scar and normally done by plastic surgeons.
Specific scar prevention serum is used and indicated by your practitioner.
Applying silicone ointment to a scar may make it smaller or prevent it from forming. Or your healthcare provider may recommend applying corticosteroid cream or a silicone gel sheet to the area. If you have dark skin, ask your provider about using a skin-lightening cream with hydroquinone to lighten scars.
I visited Dr G a few times in the past year or two for cosmetic Botox injections. Dr G has always been very kind, informative and professional during our consultations. The procedures were pain and scar free and done with much caution and precision. I strongly recommend Dr G for any aesthetic procedures.
I received cosmetic Botox, dermal fillers, and micro needling from Dr G during the past two years. I find him to be professional, caring, affordable and transparent regarding the cost, treatment, and results. I feel at ease during the procedures and have been more than happy with the results. I would strongly recommend him to anyone considering aesthetic procedures.
I need to have a joint replacement done. The orthopaedic surgeon told me to lose 20Kg before the operation can be done. Since I have been on the weight loss program and injections, I have lost 11.5Kg in 10 weeks. This really works, I feel better, and I will be able to have my operation before the year is out.
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