Where to buy the cure for scars?

[Guest BennyLava]

My friend said that there is already a cure to remove scars or heal wounds with scarring. I have a big scar at my back from accident years ago. Do you know where to buy it?

[upshot]

There is no "CURE" or 'already' a cure to remove a scare as per say. Lets get that out of the way. Some scare you can reduce the tissue scarring to minimize it but with other there is no way. The web is full of information on this subject.

 

Understanding how your skin heal and why some scare are so bad the way it is and some that is so light you hardly will see it. Even a plastic implant for breast will leave scarring just that doctors are smart to hide the scar. Google is your friend for instant and more detail information.

 

An Overview of Treating Scars

 

Skin is a seamless organ, like a fine cloth protecting valuable assets. Imagine a piece of silk. Just one small tear can make a big difference in how it looks. And it's the same with skin. Any burn, injury, or other trauma, such as surgery, can cause a scar.

Now a scar isn't bad if it's small or in a location that's easy to conceal. But when it's not, you may wonder if there's a way to treat it, other than hiding it under your clothes, that will make it go away or at least change how it looks.

The truth is the scar will never completely go away. But there are some methods that can help reduce its size and change its appearance.

How Does Scarring Happen?

Scarring is a natural part of the healing process after an injury. Its appearance and its treatment depend on multiple factors.

The depth and size of the wound or cut and the location of the injury matter. So do your age, genes, sex, and ethnicity.

What Are The Types of Scars?

These are several different types of scars including:

• Keloid scars. These scars are the result of an overly aggressive healing process. They extend beyond the original injury. Over time, a keloid scar may hamper movement. Treatments include surgery to remove the scar, steroid injections, or silicone sheets to flatten the scar. Smaller keloids can be treated using cryotherapy (freezing therapy using liquid nitrogen). You can also prevent keloid formation by using pressure treatment or gel pads with silicone when you are injured. Keloid scars are most common among people with dark skin.
• Contracture scars. If your skin has been burned, you may have a contracture scar. These scars tighten skin, which can impair your ability to move. Contracture scars may also go deeper, affecting muscles and nerves.
• Hypertrophic scars. These are raised, red scars that are similar to keloids but do not go beyond the boundary of the injury. Treatments include injections of steroids to reduce inflammation or silicone sheets, which flatten the scar.
• Acne scars. If you've had severe acne, you probably have the scars to prove it. There are many types of acne scars, ranging from deep pits to scars that are angular or wavelike in appearance. Treatment options depend on the types of acne scars you have.

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What Are Possible Treatments for Scars?

Scar treatments may include:

• Over-the-counter or prescription creams, ointments, or gels. These products can be used to treat scars that are caused by cuts or other injuries or wounds. If you are under the care of a plastic surgeon and your scarring is from cosmetic or plastic surgery, ask your surgeon if over-the-counter treatment is an option. If not, there are prescriptions that may help. Often, treatments can include steroids or certain antihistamine creams for scars that cause itching and are very sensitive. Likewise, if you have scarring from severe acne, ask your dermatologist for advice. Your doctor can also recommend or use pressure treatment or silicone gel sheeting to help treat scars or as preventive care.
• Surgical removal or treatment. There are many options to treat deeper scars depending on your particular case. These include skin grafts, excision, dermabrasion, or laser surgery. In a skin graft, the surgeon uses skin from another area of your body. This is often used with people who've had burns. If you've got scarring that impairs function, surgery can help address the functional problems. If you've recently had surgery that has caused scars, it is best to wait at least one year before making a decision about scar treatment. Many scars fade and become less noticeable over time.
• Injections. You may get steroid injections to treat scars that stick out, such as keloids or hypertrophic scars. Your doctor may use this on its own or with other treatments.

  Other types of injections, such as collagen or other "fillers," may be useful for some types of pitted scarring, although these are not usually permanent solutions.

 

[upshot]

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[ecco6]

Try this. I used it for my surgery scar and its healing fine

[VanD]

There is a product called Bio-oil which was and kinda still is all d rage about removing scars with lots of positive feedback from its users..u might want to give it a try...it's known to lighten the scar and make it less obvious...don't know how good it'll be on long-term scars but it's affordable and worth a shot...look it up and see if it's of any help...it's available in local pharmacies..I hope this helps.. Good luck...D

[Guest Boon]

Scientists have figured out how to make wounds heal without scars 

Like it never happened.

 

BEC CREW 

9 JAN 2017 

Whether it’s from a surgical procedure, clumsy shaving, or that traumatic biking incident that happened when you were five, just about everyone has a scar they wish would just fade away.

And while there’s not a whole lot that can be done for scars that are already there, researchers have figured out how to make fresh wounds heal as normal, regenerated skin, instead of the usual scar tissue - something that was previously thought to be impossible in mammals.

"Essentially, we can manipulate wound healing so that it leads to skin regeneration rather than scarring," said one of the team, George Cotsarelis, chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania.

"The secret is to regenerate hair follicles first. After that, the fat will regenerate in response to the signals from those follicles."

If you've ever wondered why scar tissue looks so different from regular skin, it's because scar tissue doesn't contain any fat cells or hair follicles. 

The type of skin that regenerates over a small, superficial cut is filled with fat cells called adipocytes, just like the skin you were born with, which means the two will eventually blend into each other once the wound has healed.

But scar tissue is made up almost entirely of cells called myofibroblasts, and doesn't contain any fat cells at all. So instead of blending into the surrounding skin once the wound has fully healed, it looks completely different - permanently.

The same goes for ageing skin - as we age, we lose our adipocytes, which leads to discolouration and deep, irreversible wrinkles.

But scientists have discovered that existing myofibroblasts can actually be converted into adipocytes, which suggests that as a wound is healing, scar tissue could be converted to regenerated skin instead - something that scientists thought could only be possible in fish and amphibians. 

"The findings show we have a window of opportunity after wounding to influence the tissue to regenerate rather than scar," said one of the team, Maksim Plikus, from the University of California, Irvine. 

Previous research from the group has shown that fat cells and hair follicles develop separately in regenerating skin, but not independently - and the hair follicles would always develop first.

Suspecting that the growth of hair follicles actually assists the growth of fat cells in regenerating skin, the researchers wanted to see what would happen if they induced hair follicles to grow in newly forming scar tissue in mice and lab-grown human skin samples.

This is something that would never occur in nature, seeing as scar tissue has no hair follicles in it. 

They found that the hair follicles released a signalling protein called Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) as soon as they started forming, and this actually converted the scar's myofibroblasts into adipocytes.

If hair follicles were induced to grow where a wound was healing, the resulting skin was found to be indistinguishable from pre-existing skin.

Maksim V. Plikus et. al./Science

"Typically, myofibroblasts were thought to be incapable of becoming a different type of cell," says Cotsarelis.

"But our work shows we have the ability to influence these cells, and that they can be efficiently and stably converted into adipocytes."

It's important to remember that the experiment is just a proof of concept at this stage - it's been shown to work in mice and human skin samples, but it's a very different thing to achieve hair follicle growth in a wound that's attached to a living human being.

But it's a big deal, because until now, scientists thought that converting myofibroblasts into adipocytes was biologically impossible in mammals. 

If the team can somehow replicate the results in a human trial - by figuring out how to manipulate the Bone Morphogenetic Protein in scar tissue, for example - it could lead to entirely new ways of wound healing that would be indistinguishable from naturally regenerated skin.

Considering we've only just figured out why our skin doesn't leak, despite the fact that we’re shedding roughly 500 million cells every 24 hours, there's a whole lot we still have to learn about the human body's largest organ.

Let's hope that some of that knowledge will lead to treatments in the future that can help wounds heal without scarring - because seriously, the pain is bad enough.

The research has been published in Science.

[wintersnow]

9 hours ago, VanD said:

There is a product called Bio-oil which was and kinda still is all d rage about removing scars with lots of positive feedback from its users..u might want to give it a try...it's known to lighten the scar and make it less obvious...don't know how good it'll be on long-term scars but it's affordable and worth a shot...look it up and see if it's of any help...it's available in local pharmacies..I hope this helps.. Good luck...D

i heard bio oil is good

[Gary Changg]

Dermatix works well for me. Do apply sunblock during the day as well.