When considering a plastic surgery procedure, one has to contemplate the potential positive results as well as the negative. Lets face the facts, all plastic surgery incisions are going to have some kind of scaring after they heal. The question is “how do we minimize this?” At Advanced Concepts in Plastic Surgery in Sacramento, we believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This applies to a lot of things in life and plastic surgery is definitely one of them. Particularly in plastic surgery, this notion applies to scars.
In the past, the only thing that could be done for scars was to try and treat them if they healed badly. There are many different creams, gels and injections which have been developed for this. Why not try to prevent the problem from the outset? The new Quill Self-Retaining System (SRS) suture, (which was developed by a plastic surgeon), is the latest advance in suturing and I have absolutely found that its application in plastic surgery clearly leads to better scars. The Quill sutures have tiny barbs in them that allow for better closure. They eliminate the need for knots and tighten up the incision like a zipper and then provide for, “controlled tension,” which means that the incision is closed and held closed in a very controlled way. This method also makes is less likely that the incision may re-open. I have used them in my plastic surgery practice for breast augmentation surgery, breast lift, tummy tucks and body lifts with excellent results and better scars than ever before. The introduction of these Quill sutures a few years ago was actually the first major advancement in suture technology since the 1970′s! This is just another example of using new technology to achieve excellent results at Advanced Concepts in Plastic Surgery.
