How we best diminish scars is an important question as a scar will in most every case result from any cuts and injuries we experience. Three different types of scars encompass the full-range of how they can surface on one's skin. Atrophic, pitted scars cause the injury or cut to be indented. Hypertrophic, raised scars will develop onto the injury or cut but not extending beyond its borders. After that there are keloid scars. These mature above and beyond the borders to sections of the skin that were not originally injured. This is the most challenging form of scar to treat for several reasons.

First of all the sources of keloid scars can range from cuts to piercings to burns to inflammatory reactions resulting from acne. Second they may only begin to develop after a good amount of time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting problem is cutting off the scar successfully by means of surgery may 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 best to care for them.

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

Doctors commonly employ complementary treatments to accompany surgery that decrease that chances of a post keloid treatment recurrence. The principal techniques associated with this strategy are compression therapy and steroid injections.

Steroid injections can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the outcome of flattening the scar's form. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots are injected on average one time 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 very little of it entering the bloodstream.

Compression bandages are believed to work from restricting oxygen to the scar which reduces the biological process that leads to the formation of what are keloids. They are specialized made garments that are made so they are worn 24 hours a day and changed weekly for a period of six to eighteen months. They have a track record of successfully decreasing the size of the scar but the time and effort is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Using a Non-Surgical Cream