The natural and very normal part of your body’s healing process, scars form in places where there is damage to the skin caused by trauma such as a cut, burn or another form of wounding. Comprised of fibrous tissues, scars can appear in various forms and to a wide degree of severity.
Causes
Scars are caused by trauma such as a cut, burn or another form of wounding. Composed of fibrous tissues, scars can appear in various forms and to a wide degree of severity.
Types
- Acne scars
shallow depressions or deep ice-pick like pits that form due to loss of collagen as an aftermath of inflamed acne lesions. Acne scarring is a concern for many people and can have a great impact on emotional health.
- Atrophic scars
round, crater-like depressions often left from chickenpox or trauma to the skin such as bug bites.
- Hypertrophic scars
raised, firm scars that come after injury or surgery.
- Keloid scars
very large, firm nodules that extend beyond the margin of the scar on the skin. Keloids occur from such skin injuries as surgical incisions, traumatic wounds, vaccination sites, burns, chickenpox, acne, or even minor scratches. They are fairly common in young women and African Americans. Keloidalis is a term used when multiple or repeated keloids are produced.
Treatments
- Acne scars
- Fractional Skin Resurfacing – This treatment works to build new collagen in the surface layers of the skin using microscopic laser beams, leaving untreated skin between.
- The only FDA-Approved Dermal Filler to treat acne scarring, Bellafill, fills certain scars that flatten when stretched by the fingers. This treatment replaces lost volume while providing the structural base for your body to produce collagen.
- Skin Pen Precision Microneedling.
- Acne scars
- If the scars flatten when stretched, they can be treated with our dermal filler, Bellafill.
- Atrophic scars may also be treated with Fractional Skin Resurfacing and SkinPen Precision.
- Hypertrophic scars
- The first line of treatment uses injections of steroids into the scar to soften the fibrous tissues and flatten the scar.
- Depending on the severity of the hypertrophic scar, a combination treatment of steroid injection and Fractional Skin Resurfacing.
- Keloid scars
- As with hypertrophic scars, the first form of treatment is to treat keloid scars with steroid injections.
- Keloid scars can require surgical removal. When surgery is required, steps are taken to minimize the chance of keloid recurrence with injected steroids before, during, and after surgical removal.
