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Why do we Scar?
Scars are the end point of the normal continuum of mammalian tissue repair. The ideal end point would be total regeneration, with the new tissue having the same structural, aesthetic, and functional attributes as the original uninjured skin. Scarless skin healing occurs in early mammalian embryos and complete regeneration occurs in lower vertebrates, such as salamanders, and some invertebrates (spineless creatures).
What, if any, are the advantages of scarring, and why do we scar?
A plausible hypothesis is that wound healing is evolutionarily optimized for speed of healing under dirty conditions, where a multiple and redundant, compensating and rapid inflammatory response with overlapping cytokine and inflammatory cascades allows the wound to heal quickly to prevent infection and future wound breakdown. A scar may therefore be the price we pay for evolutionary survival after wounding.
Skin scarring: the clinical problem
Scars arise after almost every dermal injury-rare exceptions include tattoos, superficial scratches, and punctures of veins to take blood samples. Scars are often considered trivial, but they can be disfiguring and aesthetically unpleasant and cause severe itching, tenderness, pain, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression, and disruption of daily activities. Other psychosocial sequelae include development of posttraumatic stress reactions, loss of self esteem, and stigmatization, leading to diminished quality of life. Physical deformity as a result of skin scar contractures can be disabling. Many scars take two to three years to pale and mature.
In spite of media suggestions to the contrary, scars cannot yet be made to disappear. Many people arrive at plastic surgery clinics with unrealistic expectations. Clinical judgment is required when considering treatment, balancing the potential benefits of the various treatments available against the likelihood of a poor response and possible iatrogenic complications.
There is considerable quantitative and qualitative variation in scarring potential between individuals and even within the same individual scars are normally worst in the deltoid and sternal regions and best in intraoral tissues, reflecting biological and mechanical differences between such sites. Injury in adolescents and young adults normally results in worse scarring than does similar injury in elderly people, reflecting the altered inflammatory and cytokine profile of old wounds, which in many respects resemble those of the early embryo. Individuals with pigmented skin are more prone to severe skin scarring than white people.
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