Hello, hello guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secrets of a plastic surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday. Let's talk

all about scars. It is summer. We are showing more skin, and some of us have had some battle

scars, and surgical scars, traumatic scars, scars from things healing poorly, scars are a problem, and especially when you have them on your face.

But in general, scars can be treated. And in case you didn't know, we have multiple ways of

smoothing and softening the appearance of scars. I am a big fan of prevention. So if you are injured

and you have trauma occurred to the skin, it's super important, number one,

to get rid of infection and to make sure the wound is sterile.

So washing it out with saline or water, very important.

Basically scrubbing with soapy water and just removing superficial dirt, debris, and, you know,

foreign material is number one.

And then getting some antiseptic on their alcohol or betadine, number two.

And then probably a topical antibiotic to help assist with bacteria control would be number three.

And finally, keeping things occluded or covered to trap in moisture.

And the weepy cirrus exudate of the wounds helps those growth factors that are released from your platelets to bathe the wound

and heal faster. All of those growth factors in your serum like platelet-rich plasma are released

when you have an injury. When the platelet is forming a clot in the middle of

an acute injury, you're going to have this endogenous release of growth factors from the

platelets, cytokines, to multiple things that are going to create the environment of healing.

And transform growth factor beta is one of those things that's released in that setting, which stimulates your fibroblast. One of

the best ways to get scars to heal smoothly and flat is to use a product that helps fiberblast

line up parallel to the surface and heal in a smooth and

uniform manner. Some people are born with a really aggressive form of scarring called keloiding. And that

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