Abstract
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. 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. 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. 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 3months.
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