How we best get rid of scars is an important question as scars will in most every case come from any cuts and injuries we experience. Three groups of scars cover the full-range of how they can appear on the skin. Atrophic, pitted scars cause the injury or cut to be indented. Hypertrophic, raised scars will develop on top of the injury or cut but not extending further than its borders. Next there are keloid scars. These grow above and beyond the borders of the injury or cut to regions of the skin that were originally not injured. This is the trickiest sort of scar to cure for a variety of reasons.

In the first instance the sources of keloid scars can vary from piercings to cuts to burns to inflammatory reactions triggered by acne. Second they may only begin to develop after much time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting difficulty is removing the scar successfully by way of surgery will very easily cause a new keloid scar to grow over the surgery wound!

These factors of this sort of scar call for a deeper investigation as to how to properly cure them.

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

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

The injection of steroids can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the impact of flattening the scar's form. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots are generally injected on average one time a month with the difference noticeable in 3 to 6 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 thought to work by limiting oxygen to the scar which cuts down on the biological process that leads to the formation of what are keloid scars. They are specialized made garments that are made so they are worn 24 hours a day and changed weekly for a period of 6 to 18 months. They have a track record of successfully minimizing the size of the scar but the effort and time is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Without the Use of Surgery