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Pillar 18 · 16 pages

General Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Keloids, scars, tissue expansion, fat grafting and complex defects, the general reconstructive work that restores skin, shape and confidence.

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General Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Elegance Clinic Surat
Who this is for

Anyone with a troubling scar or keloid, a defect after surgery or injury, or a reconstruction that needs revision.

First visit

Scar or defect assessment, photographs, and a written plan, including honest advice when treatment is not needed.

Where surgery happens

Daycare and theatre procedures, with laser, injection and pressure therapy alongside surgery.

Cover

Functional procedures are generally payable under mediclaim; aesthetic refinement is quoted in writing.

The pathway

How treatment is planned, step by step

Nothing here is improvised. The sequence below is how care in this specialty is actually organised, and your own written plan follows it.

01
Assess Diagnose the scar

Keloid, hypertrophic scar and stretched scar behave differently, and naming the problem decides the treatment.

02
Treat Combine therapies

Surgery, injection, silicone, pressure and laser are combined, single treatments fail keloids.

03
Rebuild Reconstruct

Tissue expansion, fat grafting and flaps rebuild defects and revise earlier reconstructions.

04
Maintain Follow through

Scar treatment is followed for a year, because recurrence is prevented, not just treated.

Why a plastic surgeon

Function first, appearance close behind

"A keloid treated with surgery alone is a keloid rehearsing its comeback."

Keloid and scar work is combination therapy followed over a year, which is why a written maintenance plan comes with every treatment.

The same reconstructive toolkit, expansion, grafting, flaps, revises defects and disappointing earlier results.

Dr. Ashutosh Shah
Dr. Ashutosh Shah Plastic, Reconstructive & Cosmetic Surgeon (DNB)
Keloid combination therapy
Tissue expansion
Fat grafting
Laser and injection therapy
22+Years in practice
16Pages in this pillar
1 yearScar follow through
Case gallery

Cases from this specialty, consented

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Before / After
Keloid excision and controlCombination therapy · 1 year
Before / After
Scar revisionStaged · 9 months
Before / After
Tissue expansion reconstructionStaged · 6 months

Published with documented patient consent, generalised for age and sex, in line with advertising norms applicable to medical practitioners in India.

Costs & schemes

Costs & cover

Published bands are for Surat and include surgeon, anaesthesia, theatre and standard stay. Where a band is not published, a written estimate follows examination. Cover under mediclaim and schemes is confirmed before admission.

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Keloid treatment (per plan)
Written estimate
After assessment
Scar revision surgery
Written estimate
After assessment
Tissue expansion (staged)
Written estimate
Case based
Questions patients ask

Straight answers, before you decide

These are the questions that come up in consultation most often. If yours is not here, send it on WhatsApp and the team will reply, usually the same day.

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Because a keloid is a scar biology problem, not just extra tissue. Surgery alone regrows in most cases; combining excision with injection, pressure or other therapy and a year of follow up is what controls it.

Usually after it matures, around nine to twelve months, unless it is distorting a feature or restricting movement, which is treated earlier.

A staged technique where a balloon under healthy skin is gradually inflated over weeks, growing matching skin that then reconstructs the neighbouring defect, valuable in scalp and large scar reconstruction.

A portion of grafted fat establishes a blood supply and stays; some is absorbed, which is why the result is judged at three months and touch up sessions are sometimes planned.

Functional procedures, contracture release, reconstruction of defects, are generally payable under mediclaim. Purely aesthetic refinement is self paid and quoted in writing.

Many keloids are managed with injections, pressure, silicone and other non surgical measures, especially when they are small or still active. Surgery is chosen for selected cases and is usually combined with treatment afterwards to reduce the chance of return.

No scar can be erased. Revision aims to make a scar flatter, narrower, better aligned or less tight, and the realistic gain for your scar is explained with photographs before you decide.

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