Dermal tunneling: A proposed treatment for depressed scars

Depressed facial scars are still a challenge in medical literature,despite the wide range of proposed treatments. subcision is a technique that is frequently performed to improve this type of lesions. this article proposes a new method to release depressed scars,reported and named by the author as dermal tunneling. this study presents a simple and didactic manner to perform this method. the results in 17 patients with facial scars were considered promising. thus,the technique was deemed to be safe and reproducible. © 2016 by anais brasileiros de dermatologia.