Abstract
BACKGROUND: Face plays the most crucial part in defining personality and anything that hampers the facial esthetics foists a great amount of psychological impact. Hence, it is extremely important to manage the facial injuries efficiently and consider all the three elements of recovery, i.e., psychological, medical and esthetics. Purpose-To evaluate the efficacy of silicone gel in healing of lacerated wounds on face. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample size of 44 patients in each group undergoing suturing of contused lacerated wound (CLW) was calculated with P-67, q-52 and l-10 Using Formula, N = 4pq/l2 using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 23. Patients were divided into two groups, Group A and Group B where Group A was study group who applied silicone over sutured wounds, while Group B was control group who did not applied any gel. RESULTS: In silicone group, a significant difference was observed between 7th day and 30th, 60th, 90th and 120th day in healing scores, while in non-silicone group, no significant difference was observed at the initial period. However, difference started to appear from 90th day and continued till 120th day. CONCLUSION: Silicone gel has considerable effect in healing of wound and prevention of unesthetic scarring when it is applied immediately from the day of suture removal and continued till 3 months.