Wire Brush Surgery

Burks, James W.

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“…Dermabrasion has been shown to be a very useful technique to improve the appearance of scars. Originally described by Kurtin in 1953, 3 dermabrasion became a widely accepted form of scar revision therapy after Burks further elaborated on the technique in 1956 10 11 .…”

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Scar Resurfacing with High-Energy, Short-pulsed and Flashscanning Carbon Dioxide Lasers

Bernstein

Kauvar

Grossman

et al. 1998

Dermatologic Surgery

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Scar Resurfacing with High-Energy, Short-pulsed and Flashscanning Carbon Dioxide Lasers

Bernstein

Kauvar

Grossman

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Dermatologic Surgery

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“…Significant improvements have developed since the technique was popularized by Kurtin 3 and Burks 4 . These include: (1) Regional anesthetic blocking of the facial nerves 5,6 .…”

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Modern Dermabrasion Techniques: A Personal Appraisal

Fulton¹

1987

The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology

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Improvements in dermabrasion techniques have upgraded the therapeutic results for the removal of acne scars, sun-damaged skin, and related skin lesions in selected patients. To help patient compliance and therapeutic response, and to avoid pitfalls, extensive step-by-step predermabrasion evaluation and patient selection procedures are helpful. Standard checklists, operative techniques, and patient follow-up procedures have improved the results. Currently, the optimal dermabrasion procedure consists not only of an extensive facial planing, but the use of Loo punch or scalpel excision and the suturing of large cysts and scars during the procedure and the filling of valley-like depressions with liquid collagen or silicone after the procedure. These methods of extensive standard procedures and protocols, rigid patient selection, and pre-, during, and postdermabrasion follow-ups are presented so medical staffs can avoid common pitfalls.

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“…Therefore, the number of recurrences was and is far, far less than described here. Dermabrasion has a half‐century of proven application for this entity 7,8 with a significantly better success rate. One year later, “96% remained free of new actinic keratosis … The average time after dermabrasion before the appearance of one actinic keratosis was 4 years (median 4.5 years).” 9 Motley and colleagues 10 presented a 10‐year follow‐up case of a severely affected bald scalp which was dermabraded under tumescent anesthesia, with not even one recurrent lesion in all that time 10 .…”

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Letter: The Superiority of Dermabrasion over Laser Abrasion in the Prophylaxis of Malignant and Premalignant Disease

Field¹

2007

Dermatol Surg

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Letter to the Editor:Several of our Dutch colleagues ''cannot support'' 1 the conclusion of James Fulton and colleagues ''that laser resurfacing is not as effective as dermabrasion and deep chemical peel for the prophylaxis of basal cell carcinomas.'' 2 A remarkable stance, i.e, taking a position opposed to one of our time's great resurfacers, and a master of multiple techniques dedicated to that purpose. I have learned much from him myself, as have all physicians interested in a variety of resurfacing approaches.My personal experiences with dermabrasion over more than four decades, 3 my observations of laser patients' outcomes, my participation in a half-face study of dermabrasion versus CO 2 laser in Brazil, 4,5 and my survey of the statistics offered by the authors all reinforce my conclusion that Fulton and colleagues were indeed correct. Never, ever, did I see such recurrence rates as those seen in this laser study with my own dermabraded patients. I doubt any of the referenced and experienced physicians referenced in this article have either. I think the reasons are simple, the rules inviolate. It is long accepted that equal depth of injury allows equal results, ''the issue being one of degree rather than instrument, one of depth rather than treatment type.'' 6 However, visualization of a finite depth that is controllable by hand-eye coordination is a superior and safer end point than a setting on a machine or series of machines (regardless of machine types). Fresh wounds heal better than burned wounds, and the number of complications with laser resurfacing exceed those from manual dermabrasion (R. Geronemus, M. Goldman, W. Hanke, verbal communication ASDS, ca. 1996). Indeed, complications have critically and negatively impacted the numbers of laser resurfacings being performed in the United States, with infections, scars, prolonged healing, and recurrences all being more common with laser resurfacing.

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Wire Brush Surgery

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Scar Resurfacing with High-Energy, Short-pulsed and Flashscanning Carbon Dioxide Lasers

Scar Resurfacing with High-Energy, Short-pulsed and Flashscanning Carbon Dioxide Lasers

Modern Dermabrasion Techniques: A Personal Appraisal

Letter: The Superiority of Dermabrasion over Laser Abrasion in the Prophylaxis of Malignant and Premalignant Disease

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