Tackling Post-Operative Cutaneous Scarring with Autologous Cell Therapy

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Regenerative medicine has brought about refreshing new thinking about age old problems. However, some problems remain mostly untouched and are not being addressed. A point in question is the track of scar tissue left behind post-operatively, which reveals the surgeon’s line of invasive incision. This confers on the patient an adverse psychological reminder and burden for the rest of his/her life. Most patients cannot afford corrective plastic surgery to ameliorate this skin defect. This paper seeks to ask whether biomedical scientists could play a role in arriving at a more pleasing cosmetic result, using a simple cell culture procedure of isolating un-manipulated autologous primary epidermal and dermal cells from a small skin tissue segment in close proximity to the surgeon’s incision line.

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Solomon, D. (2017) Tackling Post-Operative Cutaneous Scarring with Autologous Cell Therapy. Open Journal of Regenerative Medicine, 6, 27-33. doi: 10.4236/ojrm.2017.63003.

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