Treatment Of Self Inflicted Scars With Overgrafting: Destigmatization

Abstract

Treatment of self inflicted scars is allways a difficult task. These scars are usually on the nondominant forarm and extend as parellel white lines. Patients are stigmatised by the community due to this scars and want to get rid of them. Treatment of these scars is different than routine scar revisions. This will be a destigmatization action. After request of our patient to transform the scar into another form of scar , we use split thickness excision of the lesion and subsequent grafting of the area with STSG. Although there is an increase in total scar area and an extra donor site scar, destigmatisation of the patients is achieved.