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  2. How to reduce the appearance of scars, according to experts - AOL

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    Icepick scars are narrow, deep scars in the skin that form a hole or V-shape. Boxcar scars are square-shaped depressions with sharply defined edges. Rolling scars have sloping edges. “They are ...

  3. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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    Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.

  4. Scar free healing - Wikipedia

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    Scar free healing is the process by which significant injuries can heal without permanent damage to the tissue the injury has affected. In most healing, scars form due to the fibrosis and wound contraction, however in scar free healing, tissue is completely regenerated. During the 1990s, published research on the subject increased; it is a ...

  5. Silicone gel sheeting - Wikipedia

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    The exact mechanism of action of silicone gel sheeting has not been fully studied. Currently, many proposed mechanisms explain the efficacy of such treatment, including the occlusion and hydration effect, increased body surface temperature, polarized electric charge, immunological effects, etc. [9] The occlusion and hydration effect is the most studied mechanism of action.

  6. Granulation tissue - Wikipedia

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    Granulation tissue is composed of tissue matrix supporting a variety of cell types, [3] most of which can be associated with one of the following functions: formation of extracellular matrix; operation of the immune system; vascularisation; An excess of granulation tissue (caro luxurians) is informally referred to as hypergranulation or "proud ...

  7. Skin repair - Wikipedia

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    Damaged sweat and sebaceous glands, hair follicles, muscle cells, and nerves are seldom repaired. They are usually replaced by the fibrous tissue. The result is the formation of an inflexible, fibrous scar tissue. Human skin cells are capable of repairing UV-induced DNA damages by the process of nucleotide excision repair. [2]

  8. Bone healing - Wikipedia

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    The periosteal cells distal to (at the far end of) the fracture gap develop into osteoblasts, which form woven bone [citation needed] through bone resorption of calcified cartilage and recruitment of bone cells and osteoclasts. [4] The fibroblasts within the granulation tissue develop into chondroblasts which also form hyaline cartilage.

  9. Artificial skin - Wikipedia

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    In one case, however, a particular type of collagen graft led to significant delay of wound closure. [6] Careful study of histology samples revealed that grafts that delayed wound closure induced the synthesis of new dermis de novo at the injury site, instead of forming scar, which is the normal outcome of the spontaneous wound healing response.