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The Gold Standard in Scar Treatment Ingredients
Estimates from the medical community suggest that perhaps some 100 million plus individuals throughout the world develop scars every year. Of course scars differ widely in their characteristics and severity, and thus their effects on individual patients. In some cases … Continue reading
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Six Questions to Ask When Shopping for a Scar Treatment Product:
An internet search for products that help improve the appearance of scars will produce enough results to leave your head spinning. There is no shortage of creams, gels, lotions and sheets available. One could literally spend days going through all … Continue reading
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How to Use Topical Silicone Scar Treatment Gels
Topical Silicone Scar Treatments have grown tremendously in popularity in recent years. An internet search on the topic will uncover enough results to leave your head spinning. While not all of these products are created equally, there is sufficient scientific … Continue reading
Tips To Help Prevent Scars
Scars are the result of the body’s complex effort to repair damage to the skin. With few exceptions, most trauma to the skin which causes bleeding will result in at least some scarring. That said, there are certain things one … Continue reading
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What works better for Scar Treatment – Topical silicone gel or Silicone sheets
One of the more common questions we receive on a daily basis goes something like this: “Which product works better for scar treatment, topical silicone gel or silicone sheeting?” This is a difficult one to answer in just a few … Continue reading
Knee Surgery Scar Treatment Helps Mobility, Fades Scars
There are many reasons people have knee surgery. Most often it repairs an injury or a degenerative knee condition. As technology has advanced, the size of knee surgery scars has decreased, but they still exist because the deep layer of … Continue reading
Types of Scars and Treatments
Nearly all of us have a scar somewhere on our body. Scars are a natural result of the body’s effort to heal itself from trauma to the skin. Scars can take many forms depending on such factors as their cause, … Continue reading
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Do Silicone Scar Treatment Products Really Work?
There are numerous Silicone Gel Scar Treatment products available today. But do they really work? Until relatively recently, very little reliable scientific data existed to explain how silicone gels work on scars. Many so called studies were conducted, demonstrating via … Continue reading
Scar Medicine: Healing 2 Types of Sternotomy Scars
February is Heart Month. This brings to mind the topic of heart surgery, which is a way to treat problems such as coronary heart disease and heart failure. Heart surgery is also used for transplants and repairing heart valves. Much … Continue reading
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Wound Healing and Scars
Because healing processes vary, even a perfect wound closure performed by a skilled physician can result in a scar. In certain patients, scars can become raised, reddened and firm. These “hyper” enlarged scars are known as hypertrophic or keloid scars. … Continue reading
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