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How Do Razor Marks Pass?
You have probably seen people with razor marks on their arms on the street, on the bus, at your workplace, even among members of your family. When you first saw such a sight, you thought that this person was either a dark arabesque listener, or someone with substance abuse or psychological problems, and maybe you felt sorry for him. These scars, which are tried to be hidden by wearing long-sleeved clothes in summer and winter due to social prejudices, are actually a kind of psychological disorder that occurs in the form of harming one’s own body. Not only Turkey, but millions of people all over the world are harming themselves by cutting up their bodies.
This condition, which occurs more often in girls and adolescence, can occur with traumas such as family breakdown, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and sometimes it can only be seen due to simple relationship problems. These scars, which are very easy to understand due to the unique appearance that a person creates on his own body, cause problems due to social prejudices when making plans to get married in the following years, entering work, going out on the street in the summer and many other moments of life. Even if they get over all this, patients who have children in the following years have difficulty explaining the story of the wounds on their arms to their children. For this reason, they also want to get rid of the scars permanently. The problem of self-harm is seen in families of all socio-economic levels.
Harm doing is seen in more advanced dimensions, such as cutting with a cutting tool such as a razor, a falçata, glass, pressing a cigarette, biting or scratching a wound, and these people are treated in psychiatric centers. These scars are permanent, difficult to hide and become unique. Even if there is a single line, the surgical scar can be assumed and passed through, but when there are more than one and side-by-side lines, it immediately attracts attention and it is clear what happened. Then, too, these people are stigmatized by society. There was no treatment technique in the tables we are talking about until recently.
With the “Thin Skin Patch Technique” published in the American Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and awarded by the Turkish Plastic Surgery Association, it is possible to treat, camouflage and make these scars socially acceptable.
How is the Thin Skin Patch Technique Applied?
The treatment performed on the basis of hiding the scars with ”sanding and thin skin patch” does not promise the patient a completely normal skin, but the treatment turns it into a socially accepted scar that does not have a cut mark, looks like an old burn mark and is not a cut mark. For this purpose, the entire area where there are cut marks is sanded, the upper skin layer is peeled off. When this process is performed and left, the traces begin to be evident again over time. For this reason, a thin skin patch with a thickness of 0.2 mm is removed from the upper part of the patient’s thigh at the second stage of the operation. The sanded place is covered with this leather patch. The place where the patch was taken, on the other hand, heals on its own over time. This treatment takes a total of 15 days along with the healing process.
The skin patch made on the coke is pinker at first and it takes about a year to find its true color. Hairs are coming out again in the necessary places on this patch. It is necessary to protect the patch from the sun for a year, use bandages and creams. Although it is not promised that there will be no scars on the thigh from which the skin patch was taken before the surgery, there is no very obvious scar. The operation takes between one and two hours, depending on the number and width of the tracks. If the area with a scar is narrow, local anesthesia is given to the area to be treated, and sedation is given to the patient. Large scars are made under general anesthesia.
During the operation, the depth of the sanding made to the arm and the thickness of the skin patch taken from the leg are very important. When the skin patch taken from the leg is too thin, the scar is not completely erased, and when it is too thick, hairs cannot come out on the arm and a natural image cannot be provided. In addition, when the thick skin patch is removed, the wound on the leg also becomes difficult to heal.
It is Not Recommended for Patients with Psychological Problems
This surgery is not recommended for those who actively have psychological problems. The age range of patients who have recovered psychologically is between December 20 and Dec 40 and consists of people who have not had a tendency to self-harm for many years. Unfortunately, patients are quite open to being abused when it comes to scar removal methods. It is promised that the traces will disappear to a large extent only with laser applied methods, but this is not possible. Some treatments that do not have a scientific background are also recommended. Photos of patients who have recovered by the same method are not shared with people who want to get information. The biggest mistake these people will make is getting a tattoo, because it doesn’t destroy tattoo marks, it draws attention to that area more.
Prof. Dr.
Aesthetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Specialist
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
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