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Management of oxidative stress after aesthetic procedures in plastic surgery and dermatology
The most significant factors that affect cutaneous wound healing are oxygenation, infection, age and sex hormones, stress, diabetes, obesity, medications, alcoholism, smoking, and nutrition. Oxidative stress reflects an imbalance between the systemic manifestation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a biological system's ability to repair the resulting damage. It causes strand breaks in DNA. In humans, oxidative stress is thought to be involved in...