No abstract available.
Dermabrasion* ; Nevus*

A case of nevus spilus, treated by, dermabrasion, was presented with discussion about the entity of the nevus. The patient, a 20 years old healthy woman, had had a palm-sized brown macule speckled with multiple darker small spots on the lateral aspect of her letf calf since birth. The pigmented macule was removed successfully by dermabrasion.
Dermabrasion* ; Female ; Humans ; Nevus* ; Parturition ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Dermabrasion* ; Eyebrows* ; Foreign Bodies* ; Foreign-Body Reaction*

Rhinophyma is a disfiguring soft tissue hypertrophy of the nose. It is an uncommon disease that primarily affects Caucasian men in the fifth to seventh decades of life. Many treatment methods have been advocated, often with acceptable success, but there appears to be no one modality that is universally endorsed. We present a case of a 70 year old male who was treated with dermabrasion for rhinophyma in the nose.
Aged ; Dermabrasion ; Humans ; Hypertrophy ; Male ; Nose ; Rhinophyma*

BACKGROUND: Numerous modalities have been used to treat scars and wrinkles. Most of them are not satisfactory and always have some degrees of complications. OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to evaluate the effect of the combination therapy of superpulse CO2 laserbrasion and dermabrasion(laser-dermabrasion) in surgical treatment of scars and wrinkles and propose that it can be a effective method to improve cosmetic results. METHODS: Twenty-eight patients with scars and wrinkles were treated using superpulse CO2 laserbrasion followed by dermabrasion. Questionnaires were completed for clinical assessments by the patients and clinicians. RESULTS: The results are summarized as follows. 1. Excellent and good results were achieved in 83.3% of scars in clinician's assessments and in 79.2% of scars in patients' assessments. 2. Excellent and good results were achieved in 100% of wrinkles in both of clinician's and patients' assessments. 3. The degrees of satisfaction were highest during 6 to 12 months after laser-dermabrasion and maintained high over 12 months. 4. Minimal and tolerable complications developed in 9 patients such as focal hyperpigmentation, changes of skin texture, erythema, milium and acne flare-up. CONCLUSION: We propose that the laser-dermabrasion would augment the effects of both laserbrasion and dermabrasion to improve cosmetic results in treatment of scars and wrinkles with minimal risks and low costs.
Acne Vulgaris ; Cicatrix* ; Dermabrasion ; Erythema ; Humans ; Hyperpigmentation ; Skin ; Surveys and Questionnaires

The chemical peeling is the process that involves the application of one or more exfoliating agents to the skin, resulting in the destruction of portions of the epidermis and/or dermis with subsequent regeneration. These techniques produce a controlled wound with instant vascular coagulation resulting in skin rejuvenenation with reduction or disappearance of actinic keratoses and changes, pigmentary dyschromias, rhytides, and selected superficial depressed scar. We herein introduce brief skin resurfacing techniques, indications, effectiveness, side effects of chemical peeling, dermabrasion, laser resurfacing.
Cicatrix ; Dermabrasion ; Dermis ; Epidermis ; Keratosis, Actinic ; Regeneration ; Skin ; Wounds and Injuries

Surgical techniques for facial rejuvenation have become highly progressed in the last decade. Until recently, little attention has been paid to the intrinsic mechanisms of skin changes, such as wrinkling, surface irregularities, and alterations of pigmentation, and other various aging phenomena. Superficial facial wrinkling was not embraced seriously. This attitude has changed for the better, and among the many methods and techniques now available are Trichlor Acetic Acid(TCA), Phenol, Alpha Hydroxy Acid, and several different types of laser peeling methods. Skin resurfacing has undergone many changes and still is in the process of evolution. My personal experience with Phenol, TCA, and dermabrasion began in 1990. In this article, I tried to explain the basic methods of skin resurfacing for physicians and surgeons who are not in the esthetic fields. Chemical peeling, laser peeling, and dermabrasion share common characteristics of would healing. For compiling the subtopic that relates to the resurfacing, I rather concentrated my writing on chemical peeling due to the short life-cycle of laser peeling technique with ever-developing new laser machines. New techniques and procedures continue to evolve rapidly. I have no doubt that what is written in this article will be improved or become obsolete, or even be discarded in the future. Since the ideas and techniques are not static, but incessantly moving forward toward perfection.
Aging ; Dermabrasion ; Humans ; Phenol ; Pigmentation ; Rejuvenation ; Skin* ; Surgeons ; Writing

BACKGROUND: Punch grafts and punch elevation can be useful for the correction of deep pitting or round atrophic acne scars. The traditional punch elevation technique gives inadequete results. Even round scars leave a retraction space and do not always heal well. OBJECTIVES & METHODS: To improve the cosmetic results of traditional punch elevation and thus promote the use of punch elevation instead of punch grafting, we performed punch elevation with purse-string sutures on 10 patients with acne, pox & atrophic scars. We performed dermabrasion or CO2 laserbrasion after 8 weks. RESULTS: Nicely fit margins of the punch elevation site with purse-string suture left no retraction spaces and enhanced the aesthetic results. CONCLUSION: Punch elevation is a simple, satisfactory method of improving cosmetic results in scars. The Purse-string suture technique can make it a more valuable tool for surgery of facial scars, because it overcomes of disadvantages the punch elevation.
Acne Vulgaris* ; Cicatrix* ; Dermabrasion ; Humans ; Suture Techniques ; Sutures* ; Transplants

Vitiligo is a common aquired progressive leukoderma. Various procedures have been employed for those patients not responsive to medical therapy. Split-thickness skin grafting(STSG) has been used for the treatment of vitiligo for over three decades, but it did not gain popularity as it had some postoperative complications. We employed improved methods to three selected stable, nonprogressive vitiligo patients, And we evaluated its effectiveness, complications. All patients showed good attachment and repigmentation. Observed complications were uneven surface and hyperpigmentation of recipient site and milium on donor site. This method can be an the alternative treatment for patients with stable type of vitiligo.
Dermabrasion* ; Humans ; Hyperpigmentation ; Postoperative Complications ; Skin ; Tissue Donors ; Transplants* ; Vitiligo*

BACKGROUND: Acne scars are not effectively corrected by a single treatment modality because of their widely varied depths and widths. OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to assess the effectiveness of staged combinations of several surgical modalities in the treatment of various acne scars. METHODS: Chemical peeling, CO₂ laserbrasion, scar excision, punch grafting, and dermabrasion were included in this study as surgical modalities. Initially, chemical peeling was performed on all patients and then CO₂ laserbrasion, scar excision and punch grafts were used for deep scars. Finally, dermabrasion was done for the remaining scars. Questionnaires were completed for clinical assessments by the patients and clinicians. RESULTS: Clinicians assessed the results as "excellent and good" in 75% of patients. However, only 53% of patients gave this same result. The degree of satisfaction escalated as the followup periods and number of chemical peeling procedures increased and as the sequence of the 3 staged operation progressed. CONCLUSION: We suggest that the principle of 3 staged operations would be effective in the treatment of patients with various types of acne scars.
Acne Vulgaris* ; Cicatrix ; Dermabrasion ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Transplants