When your skin is injured, a wound-healing response immediately starts in your body. Your skin is repaired with collagen (an important structural protein). Unfortunately, the healed skin does not always match the surrounding tissue, which causes the formation of a scar. While it is often possible to reduce or even eliminate scarring with laser skin resurfacing, you would probably like to prevent scars in the first place! Here are some tips that might allow you to do just that:
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