TITLE:
Tackling Post-Operative Cutaneous Scarring with Autologous Cell Therapy
AUTHORS:
Denis E. Solomon
KEYWORDS:
Cutaneous Scarring, Post-Operative, Epidermal Rosettes, Dermal Fibro-blasts, Autologous Cell Therapy, Wound Healing
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Regenerative Medicine,
Vol.6 No.3,
September
15,
2017
ABSTRACT: Regenerative medicine has brought about refreshing new thinking about age old problems. However, some problems remain mostly untouched and are not being addressed. A point in question is the track of scar tissue left behind post-operatively, which reveals the surgeon’s line of invasive incision. This confers on the patient an adverse psychological reminder and burden for the rest of his/her life. Most patients cannot afford corrective plastic surgery to ameliorate this skin defect. This paper seeks to ask whether biomedical scientists could play a role in arriving at a more pleasing cosmetic result, using a simple cell culture procedure of isolating un-manipulated autologous primary epidermal and dermal cells from a small skin tissue segment in close proximity to the surgeon’s incision line.