Patient education
Stretch Marks: Causes and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own skin rather than studying the subject. If you read only one, read the first, because a stretch mark is a scar in the dermis at a particular stage, and treating it as a surface mark sends you to the wrong options.
All guides
10 guides
- What a Stretch Mark Actually IsUnderstanding
- Why the Dermis Tears When Skin Stretches QuicklyCauses
- Red Marks and White Marks Are Different ProblemsStaging
- Who Gets Stretch Marks, and Why They Run in FamiliesWho it affects
- When Stretch Marks Are a Medical SignRed flags
- How Stretch Marks Are AssessedAssessment
- What Creams Can and Cannot Do for Stretch MarksCreams and claims
- Microneedling and Laser: What They ChangeOptions
- The Honest Ceiling: No Treatment Erases a Stretch MarkLimits
- Living With Stretch Marks, and When to Stop TreatingDeciding
Start with the stage of the mark, not with a treatment
Arrange an assessment. We record how old your marks are, whether they are still red or have gone pale, and how deep they sit, then say which of them anything can be offered for and how much it would realistically change.