Many women ask the question if is there an operation to get rid of stretch marks available. They may find that during pregnancy or after a substantial weight loss that stretch marks form over the stomach area. This is because the skin lost its elastic properties as it has been excessively stretched over the period of the pregnancy. Additionally many find that their abdominal muscles are weak and the skin is flabby. They may try diet and exercise without success, anxiety and self consciousness exist, which leads them to look for a treatment that works.

Cosmetic surgery, though expensive is great If you long to get your pre-baby body back, and having a tummy tuck will remove all the lose skin and get rid of stretch marks at the same time. After the operation you will find that you have a firmer flatter stomach. You may also decide to have liposuction at the same time to create a slimmer waistline. This method will even remove the oldest scars. A tummy tuck and stretch mark removal is not a treatment for weight control. It is not a substitute for regular exercise and the need a healthy balanced diet.

It is always best to prevent stretch mark during pregnancy but if this has not been successful and you can afford an operation then there are some other considerations. If you are on the contraceptive pill you will need another method for six weeks before hand to reduce the risk of thrombosis after the operation.

A tummy tuck will show good results if you are your ideal weight for your height if not you may need to consider losing some weight before you can lose your affected skin. If you smoke you will need to give up or at least cut back as this slows the healing process of the skin and increases risk of chest infections.

If this all seems rather daunting to you, then perhaps you may consider laser surgery. This uses Excimer lasers, and works very well on older scars by restoring the natural pigmentation in the skin. This type of laser uses an ultra violet light that is extremely high powered, an excellent remedy for stretch marks. Some store bought creams that get rid of stretch marks are also recommended.

So you don’t have to wonder anymore if is there an operation to get rid of stretch marks available. There is a variety of treatments you can choose from. Just in case you are wondering what is wrong with me today no talk of golf or my garden, just straight facts, which is so out of character, then perhaps you might like to consider why a badly struck golf ball always lands frowning and never smiling, take a look next time and see if I’m not right.

My daughter is considering laser treatment for stretch marks after the baby is born. She has been considering this carefully as it can be very expensive and as she will then have four children to look after, I have slight doubts about her priorities.

It is a well-known fact that damage caused by stretching in the dermis layer of the skin will heal with scars that we call stretch marks. Laser treatment for stretch marks can greatly improve the way these scars look but doesn’t remove stretch marks entirely. However it is instrumental in helping them fade. As this is my daughters fourth and to be, last pregnancy and given the fact that in time stretch marks become established and fade, I believe she may be being a little hasty.

However I have learn my lesson and now when ever she mentions lasers, laser skin resurfacing, laser treatment or plastic surgery, I listen intently as I now realize how serious she is about this and because other wise I am told that I am just a man who is to old to understand, well I ask you, did I deserve that? Truthfully – Yes.

As a way of apologizing to my daughter for my insensitiveness l have been researching laser treatment for stretch marks and will share my findings with you as well. The first thing when considering laser surgery or laser resurfacing is to find a reputable clinic. The best way to find one whose surgeons excel in practice is to discuss this with your doctor and ask for their recommendations. This is much better than taking pot luck with the local phone directory. Another way of gaining a good deal of information about a specific clinic in your area is to visit their website.

Laser treatment for stretch marks is similar to that used for any scar. The surgeon uses a small concentrated beam of light, which, is transmitted through the skin where it loosens the stretch mark and collagen fibers. This causes inflammation in the dermis structure, which in turn encourages the body to renew the cells in that area. Laser treatment for stretch marks will require attendance at the clinic at least five or six times depending on your skin color and type. You will notice continued improvement even up to six months after your skin was laser treated.

Treatment is not painful, though you may experience slight stinging. There is a new type of laser treatment for stretch marks, in which a cooling device keeps the skin at a regulated temperature, therefore keeping the pain to a minimum.

Good morning/afternoon or what ever time it is in your part of the world. Today I am going to talk about a remedy for stretch marks. My inspiration this morning comes from my green house. Some years ago, I found a discarded Aloe Vera, it had almost turned brown, and so I picked it up and re-potted it. My Aloe Vera has rewarded my for the first time this year with the most wonderful orange flowers.

Just in case you are wondering what this has to do with a remedy for stretch marks, I would say everything. When the Aloe Vera gel is removed from the center of the Aloe leaf, you will discover nature’s miraculous therapeutic gift. Aloe Vera gel makes an excellent skin care product to use during pregnancy and afterwards. Many commercial brands specifically made as a remedy for stretch marks contain Aloe Vera.

Stretch marks form because of the skin stretching beyond its limits over a period of time and insufficient collagen and elastin in the dermis. Aloe Vera stimulates the cells in the dermis to produce more collagen and rejuvenates the skin in this way it is also useful to prevent stretch marks.

My wife and daughter are very lucky, as they do not have to go and buy Aloe Vera gel as a remedy for stretch marks. My plant is extremely large and appreciates having a trim occasionally. A sharp knife is all that is required to remove the outer skin and the gel is then available to them. If you are considering laser surgery to remove stretch marks, Aloe Vera can be used to soothe the irritation, which you might experience afterwards.

As I mentioned earlier Aloe Vera is a great healer not only as a remedy for stretch marks but also useful to prevent wrinkles, as a moisturizer for dry skin, relieve inflammation and burns, treat bruises and reduce swelling. Additionally it protects the skin from the effects of smoke, dust, and sun. When you use Aloe Vera as a remedy for stretch marks, you will find you also keep your skin youthful and fresh looking.

Next time you are at the shopping mal, supermarket or garden center why not pick your self up a plant. Mine sits under the bench in my greenhouse and requires very little attention but a small plant will be perfectly happy on a windowsill. You will then be able to tell all your friends, I grow my own stretch mark remedy and my own remedy for dry skin. Best of all, your beautiful stretch mark free skin will be your testimony.

Hello once again. This is the second article on stretch marks removal. A quick recap on the first article for those of you who might not of seen it. I began by mentioning the methods to remove, prevent, and get rid of stretch marks.

I then related a friend of mines story, which demonstrates that a man does not judge a woman by her stretch marks alone; as a matter of fact they don’t interest him at all. In the story the relationship ended and it really makes you wonder whether this had anything to do with her insecurities about her stretch marks. BUT as I’m not a psychologist and was not a fly on the wall in that particular relationship, so I will leave it there. I concluded that article by taking a look at a stretch mark cream containing Retin A, which is a great remedy for stretch marks and is available on prescription from your health practitioner or doctor and talked of how to use and avoid side effects. This now only leaves me with the content for stretch mark removal for this particular article.

Stretch mark removal can be attained with laser surgery. This encourages collagen production but this is extremely expensive and you might prefer to consider microdermabrasion as an option. Treatment by microdermabrasion removes stretch marks by partially removing the top layer of skin so that the skin below tightens and smooths. Like when you sandpaper a piece of wood, well maybe the men out there might appreciate that analogy, personally I love to see a piece of wood perfectly sanded and finished off with the finest of sandpapers. Oh dear, did I digress yet again? Microdermabrasion stretch marks removal is not painful and requires no anesthetic. A qualified beautician can perform it at a health clinic.

There are many widely available oil or cream based preparations available in drug stores, pharmacies and over the Internet for stretch marks removal. Most of these skin care products contain a form of collagen to make the skin more elastic. Other ingredients can be vitamins A and E and cocoa extracts. Using these will improve skin health, counteract dry skin, keep the skin supple and if you massage daily while applying them will encourage circulation and ease skin tension.

I know I have stressed this in many previous articles but the most important thing that you can do to achieve skin health and prevent stretch marks is to drink at least eight glasses of water a day to keep the skin hydrated. You may then find that there is no need to worry about stretch mark removal.

I will save my humor or lack of it and get straight on to the topic, which is stretch marks removal. There are a great number of methods to prevent, remove and rid of stretch marks. These include skin care products in the form of oils or a cream, plastic surgery, laser surgery and a great deal can be done with from a nutritional viewpoint. With the correct nutrition, your overall health improves, as does the health of your skin.

If you are a pregnant woman you will know that stretch marks can develop during your pregnancy because of your skin being stretch to its limits and loosing its elasticity. You will probably also be aware that six months after the birth of the baby, stretch marks will more often than not, have faded and be less visible and you will probably consider that stretch marks removal is not necessary.

However, they distress some women who believe they are severe enough to seek a way to get rid of their stretch marks. A friend of mine once told me a little story, which I believe is relevant here and in some ways makes you wonder why women feel the need for stretch marks removal. You knew I wouldn’t be able to resist didn’t you. Here is his story.

“A few years ago I had a relationship with a women in her early forties, she wasn’t fat, a bit over weight I suppose. She was attractive and I quickly fell in love with her. When I discovered that she had a lot of stretch marks, and I mean a lot, I was surprised to find it didn’t make any difference to the way I felt about her. Unfortunately the relationship ended with many tears on both sides - it was very, very complicated!! A year or two later, I had another relationship with a women about the same age. She had an amazing body with not a stretch mark to be seen anywhere. But I didn’t feel the same way about her to the way I felt about the first one mentioned.”

I hope this reassures some women that we men are not the fickle creatures they believe us to be and that if we love someone it is despite their weight, wrinkles or stretch marks. Assuming that stretch mark removal is still your main concern your doctor may be able to prescribe you a stretch mark cream with Retin A. It is able to penetrate to the dermis and help renew skin cells by boosting collagen production. This skin care product should only be used after the pregnancy and not whilst nursing your baby. When using this stretch mark cream, you should stop taking any supplements of Vitamin A, as this can produce side effects. I will talk to you more about stretch mark removal in the second article on this subject. Speak to you soon.

When I wrote the first article on laser surgery for stretch marks I surprised not only my self, but also my wife and daughter are speechless, an occurrence I have not encountered before. In fact, so speechless that I didn’t even receive any sarcastic remarks when I mentioned that the members at my golf club are planning a week end away to test out a newly opened golf club.

You are probably asking, “What’s this man going on about?” Well those of you who follow my articles, will know that I usually reserve some time in them to talk about my wife, daughter, Mr and Mrs Posh next door, golf, my greenhouse, my garden, stretch mark removal and have many digressions in the course of writing an article. BUT in my first article on laser surgery for stretch marks, I didn’t say hello, good bye or… I just wrote, discussing how anyone can get stretch mark after a sudden weight gain and how self-conscious this can make some people.

I then talked about how to go about finding a plastic surgeon to perform laser surgery on stretch marks advising you to do your own research or seek advice from your family doctor or health practitioner or to use a hospital referral line or a personal recommendation from someone who has already had laser surgery on their stretch marks. I also stressed that it is important to find a surgeon who is board registered. So on the whole a relatively informative article.

The thing is I don’t believe that I have ever just sat and wrote an article before. My wife and daughter are always saying that they think I am attention deficit. So maybe, just maybe, I really deserve this golfing weekend away and perhaps I may even be lucky enough that my wife and daughter will take loving care of the plants in my greenhouse.

As I don’t have many words to reach my quota in this article on laser surgery for stretch marks, I will continue where I left of in the first one, looking at ways to find a good plastic surgeon. You could ask you hair stylist or cosmetologist for a recommendation. You may be saying “What?” but if you think about this logically, these are people who are in the appearance/looks business. They will have seen the scars, the results and compared the performance of laser surgery for stretch marks. An experienced cosmetologist isn’t afraid to discuss such matters with his clients so consequently this is a good place to start.

Another way is to contact the regulating board of plastic surgeons in your area or use the yellow pages. However, always do you own research and interview the surgeon as well. Speak to you soon.

Stretch marks become visible when the skin is briskly stretched, for example during pregnancy or a teenage surge of growth. People are often made self-conscious and seek laser surgery for stretch marks. If you are in view of having plastic surgery then the best way to decide on a plastic surgeon is to research for yourself before having laser surgery for stretch marks.

Don’t rush into a decision meet and talk with no less than two or three plastic surgeons. You will be able to call any reputable clinic to make plans for a free consultation with a surgeon. Look at their before and after laser surgery for stretch marks pictures. Make sure you feel comfortable, have a good relationship and like the results of his work. By doing your own research to find a surgeon to perform laser surgery of stretch marks you make an informed, sound decision for yourself. This is far better than just blindly accepting someone else’s suggestion, it’s up to you to be accountable and to find the best surgeon possible.

Another good way to find a good plastic surgeon to carry out laser surgery for stretch marks is to ask your practitioner or family doctor for a recommendation. As all doctors and practitioners are busy people, the chances are that they don’t make a career out of cautiously appraising every plastic surgeon in the neighbourhood. However he should be able to recommend at least one or two plastic surgeons that he knows well. This does not necessarily mean he will mention the best plastic surgeon so you should still make your own choice and never just settle for one recommendation.

It is always wise to check the surgeon is board certified. This does not mean a lot by itself, as it does not confirm his artistic talents, what standard of results he attains or how much he is interested in your well being, you need to investigate this for yourself. You want laser surgery for stretch marks to be performed by a surgeon who can provide excellent results and who is board certified when considering stretch mark removal. Ask him to give you the names of satisfied clients who are willing to describe their experience.

It is also possible to contact a hospital referral line and they will send you a random list of plastic surgeons that perform laser surgery for stretch marks. This list will have no consideration for patient satisfaction, just a list that works at that particular hospital.

In the first article titled how to remove stretch marks, I talked to you about laser surgery, breast augmentation, and tummy tuck and also stretch mark cream. I stressed that when using a stretch mark cream it is necessary to find one that penetrates more than the top layer of skin, otherwise it does not reach the layer where collagen is made and consequently not very effective.

As I write this wife and daughter are tidying up our lounge after this mornings sit in of pregnant women. In case you have not been following my articles, my wife and daughter have a weekly get together, a sort of exercise class, though most exercising is by tongue, a get together to talk about how to remove stretch marks, skin treatment and skin care product, pregnancy, the baby and baby clothes. If you ask me they should be talking about preventing stretch marks because removing them it’s a lot harder than preventing. Any day now I am expecting them to produce a manual of instructions regarding such subjects. It’s OK, I’m only joking here but I never know what to expect next.

When considering how to remove stretch marks you might be interested in a fairly new type of surgery called Coolbeam. This is an amazing innovative treatment for both old and new stretch marks, an alternative to surgery, stretch mark cream and microdermabrasion. The Cool Beam process involves the whole surface of the skin being cooled with a special device. Successions of light pulses are passed quickly on the outside of the skin. The skin cells take in the energy of light. This causes an instant vaporization of the surface cell. Each time as the light passes over your skin, a minute amount of tissue is removed. This is a great method if you are wondering how to remove stretch marks because the treatment removes the skin according to the depth of the stretch mark. Once the scarred skin is removed, new skin will re-grow rapidly in its place. Different to other laser surgery, Coolbeam does not need a recovery period. The outcome of treatment with Cool Beam to remove stretch marks is long lasting. Most people require treatments in sequence to achieve optimal results. This skin treatment is considered safe and painless, though a temporary change in pigmentation, swelling, and some discomfort can occur in the treated area.

When considering how to remove stretch marks, you may also need to consider how much is in your bank balance. The national average cost for a Cool beam treatment is $5000. Just think, that will pay my membership to the golf club for more than the rest of my lifetime.

Topics of conversation, on how to remove stretch marks, skin treatment, pregnancy and the baby, are used in our house, by my wife and daughter, as an excuse to sit down, have a cup of tea and while away an hour or two. Topics of conversation on the golf course regarding fibrositis, which is a type of muscular complaint, are an excuse for someone’s bad golf. What do they have in common? Excuses, I frequently hear.

This first part of how to remove stretch marks will be looking at laser surgery. Laser surgery is one of the few methods of removing stretch marks, which has lasting effects. Laser surgery is painless but involves a time consuming process. The science behind the use lasers to remove stretch marks is that it preserves by repairing the skin’s normal synthesis of collagen. This is a protein rich composite in the body that looks after and renews skin tissue. Laser treatment for stretch marks works to encourage new development of depleted collagen. It eliminates injured skin tissue, closes up broken blood vessels and mends the fibers of the dermis. This helps to plug the stretch marks. Laser surgery can also be used as a skin treatment for skin acne and scars.

If you do not wish to consider surgery but are still wondering how to remove stretch marks, then stretch mark cream also follows the same method of treatment but not all creams are very effective. This is because not all stretch mark cream penetrates below the top layer of the skin. Therefore not reaching the dermis, which is the layer where the skin makes collagen.

When considering how to remove stretch marks and laser surgery, it is necessary to remember that despite its advertised effectiveness, treatment by laser surgery can be extremely costly. There are other types of surgery to remove stretch marks; one of these is the tummy tuck. Women often consider this when looking into how to remove stretch marks after a pregnancy because this method not only removes the stretch marks but also surplus fat and skin, leaving a firm, smooth waistline, free from stretch marks.

Likewise for the woman suffering from stretch marks on the breasts, they could consider breast augmentation to enlarge or tighten which will remove their stretch marks at the same time. Thank goodness my wife and daughter are not considering these extremes and are just looking for a good stretch mark cream. If you look around you can find one, which penetrates the dermis, therefore showing positive results.

Earlier in the day we were talking about how to remove stretch marks with laser surgery. Stretch marks are of particular interest to my wife and daughter and they seem to think that researching stretch marks on the Internet gives me something to do. Like I didn’t mention that before.

I have just had an afternoon’s golf and my wife says she is a “golf widow”. Now the definition of a golf widow is a woman whose husband leaves her to her own devices and she can find nothing useful to do. Well it may not have been useful but my daughter has just been telling me how she and her mother have spent all afternoon talking about skin care, dry skin, stretch marks, skin care products and treatment. So I don’t believe she can justify calling herself a golf widow.

Did you know that using the words stretch marks is somewhat misleading? This is because the real origin of these stretch marks is too much of the hormones known as glucocorticoids causing the skin to lose its elasticity. When something then causes the skin to stretch, such as pregnancy or an increase in weight, there is no enough collagen for natural skin renewal to take place. The fibers, which hold the skin together, break and lose elasticity causing a lack of melanocyte cells. These are the cells which give skin its color. This results firstly in red and purple streaks that turn white as they age.

I guess that’s enough of the small talk if you are contemplating using laser surgery to remove stretch marks, I believe, that first you should way up the pros and cons. To remove stretch marks by laser surgery helps restore the skins natural production of collagen, which is also the aim of most skin care product for getting rid of stretch marks. The reason using laser surgery to remove stretch marks are so successful is because it treats more than the top layer of the skin and it actually penetrates into the skin layers where collagen is formed.

The main disadvantage of using laser surgery to remove stretch marks is that it generally takes a number of regular treatment sessions and a good deal of money before you see the improvement in your skin. If at all possible it is always a good idea to try and prevent stretch marks.

There is a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen so I will finish here and go and investigate. My wife is really at her best when she’s in the kitchen. This is probably where some of you are going to call me chauvinistic. I’m not really, I love my wife dearly, but I’m glad she doesn’t play golf.