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Keloid scars on hair bearing areas are difficult to isolate and treat. The mainstay of treatment should always remain conservative with intralesional injections and compression therapy.
There are many ways to treat keloids. But there is a high recurrence rate. SOmetimes excision with subsequent steroid treatment is helpful, sometimes excision with raditation may help. Usually excision alone has the highest recurrence rate. You should get evaluated before giving a definitive treatment plan.Steven Wallach, MD
You might be suffering from a condition called pseudofolliculitis barbae, in which the hairs of your beard become in-grown, loop around and cause irritation, inflammation and scarring.Frequently, the best treatment for this condition is laser hair removal. The keloid scars can be injected with cortisone.You should consult a dermatologist for a correct diagnosis first.Good luck.
Our treatments use combination therapy to improve the epidermis and dermis for most deep scars. The options available for acne scars depend on the character of your scars, in terms of topography and contour. We see atrophic and hypertrophic acne scars, as well as scars that have hypo and...
Plastic surgery scars require attention after surgery so that they remain cosmetically-appealing and barely noticeable. In our office, we use a protocol for scars that minimizes their activity in the 6-8 weeks after surgery. If you have late plastic surgery scars, you may also require laser and...
Unless there is an obvious step off between the two skin edges, I would wait before considering any revision surgery. I would, however, recommend the use of lasers to tone the scar down and make it more subtle during the healing process. I would start as soon as a few weeks after...
Ivory white scars, as well other types of loss of pigmentation problemw often result from prior injury or treatments, such as trauma, scalpel surgery,lasers and chemical peels. They may be due to certain infections and inflammatory processes that damage the pigment producing layer of our...
Acne scars and hyperpigmented scars occur commonly on the back and extremities. The skin appendages on these areas differ from the face and thus require specific measures to avoid complications. Secondly, it is rather difficult to pretreat these areas before a deep chemical peel. Our...
Stable white scars can be dramatically improved using a technique known as serial excision in which the chronic scar is removed using an incision that is hidden within the scar itself. This would be of much use in your condition.
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