The aftercare item anyone with scar prone skin MUST have [Brannon Claytor, MD, Philadelphia]

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Dr. Brannon Claytor. My specialty is plastic surgery and I am in the suburbs of Philadelphia. If anybody knows Villanova basketball, it's right near Villanova.

Do variations in skin color, ethnicity, age also have an impact on healing?

They have an enormous impact and in some of those patients, especially if they've had a challenging scar healing scenario and you're having to go back and do some sort of a scar revision. There are different things that you can consider that offload that outer scar so that it's not putting as much tension on there. Brijjit is one. It's these little plastic applicators that are very user-friendly to put on. They don't stay on super long time, but you can reapply them if they fall off and they literally are almost like a little plastic bridge that bridges across. It's the name of it, bridge it. They bridge across the incision and decrease the tension on that. And therefore we all know that tension can lead to more extreme scars, and so the amelioration or minimization of that stress, theoretically, should be translating to less fibroblast and collagen hyper proliferation. The other things are embrace, which is another technique, and that's sort of like two giant band-aids across the side, and as you apply them, they draw tension towards the middle. And those are two of the ones that are out there. I'm sure there are many others, but those are the two that I've used and have had success with.

I heard about Brijjit a while ago and I can't tell you how long it took me to figure it out because I was Googling and Googling. It's spelled B-R-I-J-J-I-T.

Correct. Yeah.

So if you're listening and you want to look at it now you know how to spell it.

Yep, exactly. Thank you.

It's kind of a fun spelling, so.

It is.

They did a good job, or maybe that's all that was available, so they just went with it.

I dunno.

Give us your Instagram and your website.

So the Instagram is @ClaytorPlasticSurgery and my website is ClaytorNoonePlasticSurgery and Noone is spelled N-O-O-N-E. It's a legacy to my partner who's retired, but Barry Noone, who is the giant in the world of plastic surgery.

Thank you, Dr. Claytor.

Thank you so much.

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