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Scar Characteristics
Different scars have different symptoms. Treatment is designed to target each of your symptoms e.g., if you have pain and itch, these 2 symptoms should be treated. Find common scar symptoms and how to treat them here.
Scar Gallery
Scars are caused by many things such as burns, surgery, trauma, cuts. Each cause of scar produces a different type of scar, each scar type needs different treatments. To help you know what treatments may be best for your scar, find a scar that looks most like yours here.
Find a Scar Specialist
It’s important to seek advice and treatment from practitioners who are experts in scars. Once you have a better understanding of what treatments your scar may need, you can find specialists who provide that treatment here.
Scar gallery: All scars are different, which is most similar to yours?
Scar characteristics: how does your scar look and feel?
Pain
Itch
Thickness
Pliability
Redness
Pigmentation
Texture
Contractures
Scar treatments
Moisturizers
Moisturisers increase the water content (hydration) of the stratum corneum (top layer of the skin) which fills the spaces between ...
Pressure Therapy
Pressure therapy is a standard treatment to prevent hypertrophic scars (mainly burn scars). Pressure therapy involves wearing ...
Silicone Therapy
Scars and skin graft donor sites need regular creaming (moisturisation) to prevent the area from drying, cracking and becoming ...
Topical Ointments and Creams
Several prescription and over-the-counter topical agents are available, many claim to alleviate symptoms, improve ...
Skin Camouflage
Skin camouflage creams are a completely non-invasive way of reducing the appearance of scarring ...
Exercise and Splinting
People who sustain burn injuries can experience reduced activity performance due to periods of immobilisation, ventilator ...
Scar Massage
Scar massage is a non-surgical technique used in day-to-day scar and burn care. There are multiple techniques ...
Scar Taping
Elastic taping (kinesio tape) is an acrylic adhesive that is often used as a physiotherapeutic tool for the treatment ...
Shockwave Therapy
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is a type of pulsed acoustic wave resulting from excessive pressure ...
Vacuum Massage
Vacuum massage is also known as depressomassage, vacuotherapy or Endermologie®. It is a non-invasive mechanical ...
Corticosteroid Therapy
Corticosteroid therapy has been commonly used for years to treat hypertrophic and keloid scars. Corticosteroids suppress ...
Injectables
There are many treatments for keloid and hypertrophic scar. In addition to corticosteroid injections many other chemotherapeutic ...
Micro-Needling
Micro-needling is a semi-invasive technique that can be used on the face and body to achieve collagen induction ...
Ablative Fractional Laser (AFL)
The Ablative Fractional Laser (AFL) is a wounding laser, which delivers micro fractional columns of laser light ...
Non Ablative Fractional Laser (NAFL)
A Non-Ablative Fractional Laser (NAFL) is a non-wounding laser, it does not damage the integrity of your epidermis. NAFL uses a ...
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is not the same as a laser. IPL releases pulses of energy through light in a broad wavelength range ...
Pulsed Dye Laser (PDL)
The Pulsed Dye Laser (PDL) is a highly effective and low risk laser for the treatment of a wide range of vascular ...
Surgical Scar Revision
Annually, 200 million incisions (surgical cuts) are performed worldwide. The treatment of aesthetically unacceptable ...
Surgical Wound Closure Techniques
The healing of cutaneous wounds after surgery is the result of a cascade of complex biochemical events that can be ...
Our aim
This website aims to give you an overview of the treatment options available to improve your scar(s). There are a wide variety of treatments that claim to be the ultimate solution which will make your scar disappear (unfortunately at this point in time, these are false promises). However, it is possible to considerably improve the look and feel of most scars. Every scar has its own story, often a scar needs several treatments and may need input from several experts. This website is your guide towards the best solution for your scar.
"What are my options?"
It can be really difficult for you to know what treatments can best help your scar, and what is possible. We have developed three ways to help make this easier for you.
1. What aspects or characteristics of your scar do you most want to improve? Click scar characteristics and find the common symptoms, see which treatments benefit those symptoms or characteristics.
2. The look of your scar can help guide you to what treatments are most likely to benefit you. Click on the scar gallery to find a scar most like yours and find the common treatments for this type of scar.
3. Click on the scar treatments and find out more about the various treatment options.
! Very Important !
Do not act on your own. Consult a scar specialist to guide you on your journey towards healing.