Particularly rolling acne scars and hyperpigmentation on the face.
I understand why deep scars/tattoos remain.
However, thought shallow scars and light sun spots would fad with a few months of cell turnover?
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The skin is made up of several different cells. Some are actual skin cells and some are more structural. There is also fatcells, immune cells, nerves and much more. Your skin is incredibly complex. It’s not just a bag covering muscles.
When you get a small damage the skin heals completely. That is because you haven’t lost any structures. Think of it like a building. If a couple of windows gets busted and the roof gets some damage then it’s a pretty easy fix. The rest of the building is there to build on and you know where the windows go.
Now if you get a deeper and more severe damage you lose the structure of the skin. If we take the building again. If you lose an entire wall, windows and all, and you don’t have blueprint it is impossible to know how it’s supposed to look. So you just slap concrete on that side and call it a day. That is scar tissue. It’s the body’s way of healing something that has lost its identity. It doesn’t know exactly how it looked before and replicating some things in the original is impossible so it just builds scar tissue.
If you get a medium injury it can heal fully but it takes a lot longer.
If you have to replace 3 windows it’s quicker than if you have to replace 10 windows and a part of the wall.
Children often gets worse scarring because they are excellent healers. Old people usually get less scaring because they heal worse. While discreet scars are nice you also lose a lot of strength with those.
The skin is made up of several different cells. Some are actual skin cells and some are more structural. There is also fatcells, immune cells, nerves and much more. Your skin is incredibly complex. It’s not just a bag covering muscles.
When you get a small damage the skin heals completely. That is because you haven’t lost any structures. Think of it like a building. If a couple of windows gets busted and the roof gets some damage then it’s a pretty easy fix. The rest of the building is there to build on and you know where the windows go.
Now if you get a deeper and more severe damage you lose the structure of the skin. If we take the building again. If you lose an entire wall, windows and all, and you don’t have blueprint it is impossible to know how it’s supposed to look. So you just slap concrete on that side and call it a day. That is scar tissue. It’s the body’s way of healing something that has lost its identity. It doesn’t know exactly how it looked before and replicating some things in the original is impossible so it just builds scar tissue.
If you get a medium injury it can heal fully but it takes a lot longer.
If you have to replace 3 windows it’s quicker than if you have to replace 10 windows and a part of the wall.
Children often gets worse scarring because they are excellent healers. Old people usually get less scaring because they heal worse. While discreet scars are nice you also lose a lot of strength with those.
only the surface layer, the epidermis, gets replaced every 25-80 days. and that layer is very thin, and basically transparent.
the layer underneath, the dermis, doesn’t have the same amount of turnover.
only the surface layer, the epidermis, gets replaced every 25-80 days. and that layer is very thin, and basically transparent.
the layer underneath, the dermis, doesn’t have the same amount of turnover.
only the surface layer, the epidermis, gets replaced every 25-80 days. and that layer is very thin, and basically transparent.
the layer underneath, the dermis, doesn’t have the same amount of turnover.
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