How we best get rid of scars is an important question as a scar will in most all cases develop from any cuts and injuries we experience. Three types of scars encompass the full range of how they can appear on one's skin. Pitted, atrophic scars cause the injury or cut to be indented. Raised, hypertrophic scars will raise onto the injury or cut but not beyond its borders. Next there are keloid scars. These grow above and beyond the borders of the injury or cut to areas of the skin that weren't originally injured. This is the toughest form of scar to treat for various reasons.

To start with the sources of keloid scars can vary from cuts to piercings to burns to inflammatory reactions caused by acne. Secondly they may only begin to grow after a good amount of time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting frustration is cutting off the scar successfully by means of surgery will very easily cause a new keloid scar to expand over the surgery wound!

These characteristics of this form of scar call for a deeper investigation as to how one should address them.

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

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

The injection of steroids can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the benefit of flattening out the scar. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots will be injected on average one time a month with the difference in size noticeable in 3 to 6 months time. The good part is the cortisone treats the scar with very little of it getting into the bloodstream.

Compression bandages are thought to work by limiting oxygen to the scar which cuts down on the biological process that leads to the creation of keloids. They are custom made garments that are made so they are worn twenty four hours a day and changed weekly for a period of 6 to 18 months. They have a track record of successfully lowering the proportions of the scar but the effort and time is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Surgery