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Can Dermal Fillers be used for Stretch Marks?
Can dermal fillers be used to raise depressed stretch marks? The texture is more troublesome to me than the color. Thoughts?
Fillers not a good answer for stretch marks
Stretch marks are actually tears in the dermis and do not have the same elastic properties as normal skin. Finding a treatment for stretch marks has been a bit of a holy grail - treatments including laser, fillers, dermabrasion have not shown to be particularly effective. Your local drugstore also has a shelf full of similarly minimally (if at all) effective treatments. Currently the only way to truly correct stretch marks is to cut them out... which of course leaves a scar (for example many tummy tuck patients have stretch marks that are excised in the abdominal tissue we remove). Sorry... Steven Williams, MD Tri Valley Plastic Surgery
