How we best diminish scars is an important question as a scar will in most all cases develop from any cuts and injuries we experience. Three categories of scars encompass the full range of how they can surface on one's skin. Pitted, atrophic scars leave the cut or injury indented. Hypertrophic, raised scars grow over the cut or injury but not extending further than its borders. Next there are keloid scars. These expand beyond the edges of the injury or cut to sections of the skin that weren't originally injured. This is the most challenging form of scar to cure for numerous reasons.

In the first instance the causes of keloid scars can range from cuts to piercings to burns to inflammatory reactions caused by acne. Second they may only begin to grow after much time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting difficulty is cutting off the scar successfully by means of surgery can very easily cause a new keloid scar to expand over the surgery wound!

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

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

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

Steroid injections can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the result of flattening out the scar. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots are generally injected on average once a month with the difference in size recognizable in three to six months time. A positive aspect is the cortisone treats 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 cuts down on the biological process that leads to the formation of what are keloids. They are customized made garments that are made to be worn twenty four hours a day and changed weekly for a period of six to eighteen months. They have a track record of successfully cutting down the size of the scar but the time and effort is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Using a Non-Surgical Cream