Question about dissolvable stitches scars?

I have an 8yr old daughter who was bit by a dog on the face when she was 13 months old. They used over 110 dissolvable stitches. Unfortunately it appears that not all of them dissolved properly. She has a few raised spots which look almost like white heads. The dr said that this was from the knots of the stitches and would go away with time but seeing as its been 7 years I was wondering if these will be permanent and if there is any way to get rid of them. At the time the dr recommended plastic surgery to get rid of the scars when she is a teenager (when her face has finished growing) but she is starting to be self conscious about the knots so I was wondering if they could be fixed prior to plastic surgery on the scars. The scars themselves aren%26#039;t as noticeable as the stitch knots are. I hope I explained this well enough!|||Those stitch knots are part of her skin heal over/ The continuous evenness of the skin has been marred by the puncture wounds of the dog bite itself. As it went through all the layers of the skin, the bridge the body makes to repair the injury is not identical to the skin that was there(scar tissue - which is a different cell structure type that %26quot;bridges and joins%26quot; the edges together. That %26quot;repair material%26#039; the body manufactures is used over the whole body as a %26quot;patch all-kit%26quot; whether it be the skin or it be internal organs.


All a plastic surgeon do is cut out the scar and hold the skin closer together by mechanical means so that the %26quot;bodies repair kit%26quot; will make smaller bridges to gap the wound.


Oops, Almost missed the question. There are no stiches left, just this overgrowth of scar tissue material that remains(and you will always have a scar once you cut a surface)(how can you uncut a surface once it has been cut)?


Can you put anything on it? Base and blush or whatever you ladies use in makeup chemistry. It is her skin, just like a mole.|||Aww..well theres really (I don%26#039;t think) much you can do without surgery to go in and remove them. Maybe putting a little rubbing alcohol on them will help them dissolve, since there are pores for it to sink down into.