Types of Burns and Reconstructive Burn Surgery

Now with the help of cosmetic surgery people don’t have to shy away and cut themselves from the rest of the world they don’t have to hide their face anymore. The reconstructive burn surgery can not completely remove the burns but can make much less obvious.

Burn Marks

When a person is burnt than that part of their body is left deformed forever in the past burn marks were considered untreatable and people with burn mark would usually shy away from the rest of the world and would hide that part of the body form everyone else. However, all this changed with the introduction of plastic surgery.

Category of Burns

There are three types of burns.

First degree

These type of burns are not that strong when compared to other types. It can cause pain and redness in the skin. It only burns the outer layer of skin.

Second degree

It affects dermis and epidermis which are both layers (Upper and Lower). These type of burns causes pain, blistering and redness in the skin.

Three degree

These type of burns penetrate deeper into the skin and affects the tissues of the skin. The results are severe and intense. It causes the skin to become white or blackened in severe cases. If the burns are strong enough then it charred the skin.

Types of Burns

Cause of burns greatly effects the type of burn it would become. Even though, fire is the main reason there are many other things that can give you burns.

Cold Burns

These burns are also called frostbite and it can severely damage your skin by freezing it. The cold burns are usually caused when a person is outside in a freezing temperature for an extended period of time. It can also be caused by getting into direct and prolonged contact with something very cold.

Chemical Burns

Strong acids and other chemical products can burn and damage the skin of a person if it comes in direct contact with skin.

Friction Burns

These types of burns are caused when the skin of a person rubs off with a hard and solid object. These type of burns are usually caused by motorcycle accidents.

Radiation Burn

These types of burns are caused by different rays. Sunburn is also this type of burn. While treating cancer x-rays are used which can also cause radiation burns.

Thermal Burns

These are the most common type of burns and are caused when skin come directly in contact with something hot.

Surgery for burn marks

Usually, reconstructive surgery is the need for highly complex and severe burn marks which can greatly improve the burn marks

Reconstructive Burn surgery

Reconstructive surgery is a cosmetic surgery which is performed by a cosmetic surgeon after the initial burn mark has already healed. The Surgery is done to improve the physical appearance and function of that part of the body. In this treatment, scar tissues are altered using operative methods of treatment.

It usually takes years for the completion of this procedure and usually, the relationship between patient and surgeon lasts for years. It takes months for this surgery to finally show visible results and usually new surgery is required years after the first one. This usually happens in young patients because their body structure is constantly changing.

What to expect?

It should be kept in mind that the burn marks cannot be completely removed through this procedure but would rather make it less visible. Burns mostly limits the motion of different parts of the body. Surgery is often done to release these parts of the body. So the goal is not just the limiting the visibility of the scar.

Reconstructive Burn Surgery can greatly improve the visibility of scar as well as restore your body’s movement and can act as a turning point in the patient’s life.