RESTORATIVE SURGERY

Restoring Your Skin to Normal Appearance and Function

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Restoring the Site Where Skin Cancer Was Removed

After cancer has been surgically removed the site of the surgery is “restored.” Although some wounds are allowed to heal on their own, suturing typically promotes faster healing, quicker return to full function, and superior cosmetic results. Some wounds are stitched as a simple straight line closure, while others require more advanced suturing techniques, and occasionally flaps or grafts.

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How to Care For Your Wound After Restorative Surgery is Done

  • Keep the area dry for the first 48 hours after stitches have been placed.
  • Gently wash around the site with cool water and soap. Clean as close to the stitches as you can. Avoid washing or rubbing the stitches directly and avoid putting tensions on the area.
  • Dry the site with a clean paper towel. Avoid using the towel directly on the stitches.
  • If there was a bandage over the stitches, replace it with a new, clean bandage.
  • After 3 days, remove the bandage, unless told otherwise, to allow the wound to be exposed to the open air.
  • Keep the site clean and dry by washing it 1 to 2 times a day.
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Restorative Surgery

Surgically removing cancerous and other skin lesions using specialized techniques to preserve your health and your appearance is a safe and effective solution to not only removing cancerous moles and skin cancer spots, but for benign moles that you don’t want on your body any longer. A skin cancer diagnosis is a difficult thing to hear, let alone deal with. It is important to understand that treating your skin cancer may result in scars, or in more extreme scenarios, disfiguration.

As a Board Certified Dermatologist and fellowship-trained dermatologic surgeon, Dr. Francis has extensive skill and experience in restorative surgery, especially on the face, including the nose, ears, eyelids, and lips.The goal of restoration is to achieve normal appearance and function. However, restorative and reconstructive surgery is a broad specialty that includes many types of procedures, including cosmetics. Your environment, lifestyle and preferences are all factored into a restoration designed specifically for you.

We meet with each of our patients to better understand them and their health concerns, coming up with a singular plan of action to treat their skin cancer or cosmetic goals. For more information about our skin cancer surgeons in Denver, or to schedule an appointment, contact us today.

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Skin Cancer

Patients often ask, “What can I do to protect myself from skin cancer?” Unfortunately, your skin’s sun damage cannot be completely reversed. However, several precautions can be taken to reduce your risk of developing skin cancers.

COSMETIC

It is important to remember that, in both men and women, good-looking skin is usually healthy skin. You will look better after our cosmetic procedures, but more importantly, our goal is that your skin will also be healthier.

GENERAL DERMATOLOGY

Our experienced dermatologists will help you find the procedures that are right for you, creating a care and treatment plan that may help you to overcome issues with your face, body, skin and more!