Postoperative Skin Surface Tension Relaxing in Prevention of Facial Surgical Skin Scarring

XiaoXi Lin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Scar

Treatments: Device: Tension reduction device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03842644

SH9H-2018-T65-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of early postoperative skin surface reduction in improving scar formation after facial surgery.

Full description

Primary measurement: the mean scar width calculated by standard photos with rulers.

Secondary measure: the probability of scar hyperplasia.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The incision is not shorter than 3cm
• Skin type is III/IV

Exclusion criteria

• Any medical history of facial surgery, not included injection therapy, external medication or fat graft
• Unsuitable for device use due to anatomical location of incision, eg. lips, eyelids and ear
• Patients with a history of keloid or family history of keloid
• Patients with serious skin disorders, eg. serious psoriasis or dermatitis
• Patients with severe systemic or congenital disease which may affect the patient's safety in this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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55 participants in 2 patient groups

Tension Reduction

Experimental group

Description:

Tension reduction device for 3 months post surgery

Treatment:

Device: Tension reduction device

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No tension reduction