Keloid Scarring

Benefits:

• Helps improve comfort and appearance
• Supports inhibition of further keloid growth for peace of mind

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Treatment options:  laser, light therapy, injections, topical applications, and silicone scar inhibitors and which options suit best to your particular type of keloid(s) will be discussed during consultation.

Most keloids can be improved, particularly if attended to early.

Treatments are mostly painless, although sometimes injections may be uncomfortable, it's rare to require anaesthesia.

Unless there is a good indication, keloids are usually not excised as the healing wound will likely cause another keloid to form.

Why do some scars Keloid and others don't?

There is a normal regulatory (biofeedback) mechanism that determines when a wound has healed sufficiently and for the healing process to then cease.

In a person who is prone to keloid scarring (3-5% of the population), this regulatory mechanism is defective and fails to register that the healing is complete, allowing the healing process to continue and more scar tissue to form and pile upon itself, creating a red or pigmented, large, thick and hard scar, called a keloid. It is interesting, however, that even in the same individual keloid may form on one part of the body and not on other parts, so it can be quite complex.

Will it go away on its own?

Keloids will continue to grow for some time as the switch-off mechanism is absent and some may reach an amazing size. In time, the process may stop on its own and the keloid stops growing but this can take years and not before it has reached a significant size. The keloid scar, however, will rarely shrink on its own afterward, it will need to be treated.

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