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DOUGLAS TORRE, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(6):615-617.

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Dermal abrasion for the treatment of postacne scarring and of rhinophyma is now being widely practiced by dermatologists. Most dermatologists use the revolving wirebrush technique with refrigeration analgesia as an office procedure. To a large extent this has superseded the sandpaper method, which was often carried out as a hospital procedure with general anesthesia. The purpose of this article is to present a simplified abrasive technique using rasps. The principles of abrasion therapy and its historical background have been well covered in recent articles.^*

Materials

Instruments are simple and inexpensive rasps. The principal ones are forged steel sculpture tools having a central handle with variously shaped toothed working surfaces at the ends. They are available at most sculpture supply houses. More recently a stainless steel semicylindrical rasp with a plastic handle was added for the preliminary phase of the abrasion. This is marketed as a "corn . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Medicine (Dermatology), The New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 20, 1956.

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