How we successfully get rid of scars is an important question as a scar will in most cases usually develop from any injury or a cut we experience. Three types of scars cover the full range of how they can surface on one's skin. Atrophic, pitted scars will leave the cut or injury indented. Raised, hypertrophic scars will grow above the injury or cut but not beyond its borders. And then there are keloid scars. These raise above and beyond the borders to regions of the skin that were not originally injured. This is the trickiest kind of scar to treat for numerous reasons.

To start with the causes of keloid scars can range from burns to cuts to piercings to inflammatory reactions caused by acne. Next they may only begin to form after much time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting problem is removing 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 kind of scar call for a deeper investigation as to how to properly care for 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 principal techniques involved with this approach are steroid injections and compression therapy.

The injection of steroids can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the impact of flattening the scar's size. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots are generally injected on average once a month with the difference apparent 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 entering the bloodstream.

Compression bandages are thought to work by restricting oxygen to the scar which cuts down on the biological process that leads to the creation of what are keloid scars. They are customized made garments that are made so they are worn twenty four hours a day and changed once a week for a period of six to eighteen months. They have a track record of successfully minimizing the dimensions of the scar but the effort and time is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Without the Use of Surgery