Updates in Fetal Wound Healing and Scar Prevention

Periocular scarring can result in devastating clinical consequences including but not limited to disfigurement, amblyogenic ptosis, and visually threatening eyelid retraction. Understanding the principles of wound healing is important to prevent or reduce these devastating consequences and their psychosocial repercussions. In this chapter, we will review the basic principle of wound healing from the initial time of tissue injury and through the latest stages of scar remodeling. We will also review newer clinical and experimental modalities employed to date for the treatment or prevention of scar formation.