How we successfully diminish scars is an important question as scars will in almost all cases come from any cuts and injuries we experience. Three different types of scars encompass the full range of how they can appear on the skin. Pitted, atrophic scars cause the injury or cut to be indented. Hypertrophic, raised scars will grow on top of the injury or cut but not beyond its borders. And then there are keloid scars. These develop beyond the borders of the injury or cut to sections of the skin that were originally not injured. This is the hardest type of scar to treat for several reasons.

In the first instance the causes of keloid scars can vary from burns to cuts to piercings to inflammatory reactions caused by acne. Next they may only begin to grow after a prolonged timespan has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting difficulty is removing the scar successfully by means of surgery can very easily cause a new keloid scar to raise over the surgery wound!

These characteristics of this type of scar call for a deeper investigation as to how best to treat them.

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

Doctors often make use of additional treatment methods to accompany surgery that decrease that chances of a post keloid treatment recurrence. The main techniques involved with this strategy are steroid injections and compression therapy.

Steroid injections can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the effect of flattening the scar's form. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots will be injected on average once a month with the difference visible in three to six months time. A positive aspect is the cortisone reduces the size of the scar with only a very small amount of it going into the bloodstream.

Compression bandages are believed to work from limiting oxygen to the scar which reduces the biological process that leads to the development of keloid scars. They are custom made garments that are made to be worn 24 hours a day and changed once a week for a period of 6 to 18 months. They have a track record of successfully reducing the size of the scar but the time and effort is very consuming.

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