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How we best get rid of scars is an important question as a scar will in most all cases result from any injury or a cut we experience. Three groups of scars cover the full range of how they can appear on the skin. Atrophic, pitted scars leave the cut or injury indented. Hypertrophic, raised scars will develop onto the cut or injury but not extending beyond its borders. Then there are keloid scars. These expand above and beyond the borders to areas of the skin that were not originally injured. This is the toughest sort of scar to treat for numerous reasons.

In the first instance the causes of keloid scars can range from piercings to cuts to burns to inflammatory reactions caused by acne. Next they may only begin to develop after much time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting issue is removing the scar successfully by way of surgery could very easily cause a new keloid scar to raise over the surgery wound!

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

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

Doctors typically make use of additional treatments to accompany surgery that diminish that chances of a post keloid treatment recurrence. The primary techniques associated with this strategy are compression therapy and steroid injections.

The injection of steroids can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the effect of flattening the scar's form. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots are generally injected on average once a month with the difference visible in three to six months time. The good part is the cortisone reduces the size of the scar with only a very small amount of it entering the bloodstream.

Compression bandages are believed to work from restricting oxygen to the scar which cuts down on the biological process that leads to the formation of keloids. They are specialized made garments that are made so they are worn 24 hours a day and changed once a week for a period of six to eighteen months. They have a track record of successfully reducing the dimensions of the scar but the commitment is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Without the Use of Surgery