A facial cut that is treated in the emergency room may require a plastic surgeon to stitch up to avoid possible scarring. Morsa Images Getty Images Q. When I was a young child, I had a cut and was ...

Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or trauma, Stanford Medicine researchers have found. If results from their study, ...

Top surgery will cause some scarring, which varies depending on the type of surgery people have. Maintaining good health before and after surgery and proper wound care postsurgery may help to minimize ...

When a cosmetic procedure goes wrong, the scars are not always the ones a mirror can catch. The woman at the center of this story says plastic surgery left her feeling like a stranger in her own body, ...