A study of cosmetic evaluation of various methods of scar correction

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Om Prakash Gupta., Shainda Laeeq., Saurabh Srivastava and Shalini Gupta

An individual’s facial appearance is one of his most obvious characteristics of his personality and facial disfigurement is judged to be among the least desirable ‘handicaps’. physical attractiveness has a statistically significant effect on self-esteem and other measures of psychic well- being. Scars are psychologically distressing for the patients and have an impact on the quality of life and self esteem of the patients. Scar revision is an aesthetic skill which is mastered by plastic surgeons and encroached now by dermatosurgeons. Scars on the face are aesthetically unacceptable and various techniques have been improvised for making a scar aesthetically acceptable.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.10337.1745
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