What Are the Best Ways to Get Rid of Scars?
What Are the Best Ways to Get Rid of Scars?
Dermabrasion: A surgeon uses an electrical dermabrasion machine to remove the top layers of skin. This process gives the skin a smoother surface. Dermabrasion is used for treating acne scars, pockmarks, some surgical scars, or minor irregularities.
Laser Scar Revision: Another method of improving scars is laser scar revision. High-energy light is used to treat damaged skin. Different lasers are available for treating a variety of scars. For example, a pulsed dye laser uses yellow light to remove scar redness and to flatten raised scars (hypertrophic scars or keloids).
Soft Tissue Fillers: There are injectable substances such as fat, collagen and hyaluronic acid, that are used to treat indented soft scars.
Punch Grafts: Punch grafts are small pieces of normal skin used to replace scarred skin. A tiny circular cutter is used to cut a hole in the skin and remove the scar. The area is then filled in with a matching piece of unscarred skin.
Chemical Peels: This procedure uses a chemical to remove the top layer of the skin and smooth depressed scars. It is most helpful for superficial scars.
Pressure bandages and massages: These can both flatten some scars if used on a regularly for several months.
Silicone gels: Silicone-impregnated gels can be used at home to remodel elevated scars. They must also be used regularly.
Cryosurgery: This technique freezes upper skin layers and causes blistering of the skin to remove the excess tissue at the scar.
Cortisone injections: These are effective in shrinking and flattening very firm scars. This treatment is popular for hypertrophic scars and keloids.
Interferon: This is a chemical that is injected into the scar. It may improve the appearance of a scar.
Cosmetics: Make-up applied correctly can be very good at covering up scars.
