Surgery activates more keloids. Silicone removal creams can’t.

• Cream does not break the skin. It does not awaken the tendency to form keloids. A silicone keloid scar removal cream encourages fibers to loosen. A keloid is a thick bunch of scar fiber.
• Cutting releases more thick tissue in the same place. There is a high rate of keloid recurrence – up to 50% – according to the medical review board of About.com. Doctors can’t predict which time surgery will work, or if it will boomerang.

Scalpel or laser?

• It doesn’t make any difference. A knife and a beam cut skin. The wound awakens the tendency to form severe scars.

When you heal abnormally once, chances are it will happen again somewhere else on your body. Silicone is the earliest possible home treatment when surgery is too risky.

Medical grade, 100% silicone is available in scar removal cream sold over the counter. The FDA has approved it. People prone to abnormal healing should start using it as soon as a break in the skin closes. In fact, some doctors prescribe it after surgery.

• A keloid is  “scar tissue that won’t stop growing”. It is often not a candidate for surgical removal, or dermabrasion, because those treatments also leave a scar, and it may be a keloid.
• There is a real risk the skin that grows back after keloid scar removal will be bigger, bolder keloid tissue.

Keloids on dark skin appear pink or red.  They stand out on dark skin.

People of color are particularly in search of a keloid scar removal that fades the color of the out-of-control scar tissue.

With medical options discouraged by doctors, silicone keloid scar treatment makes sense for darker skin. Silicone promotes fading over time.

Research proves silicone reduces keloid scars.

A major medical center in India performed a controlled study of silicone scar treatment creams and gels. They concluded it may be the least expensive, effective option for poor third world countries. The research was done in India because dark South Asian skin is prone to keloids.

Silicone was kept on serious scarring for 12 hours a day.

1. Doctors documented moderate improvement in 50% of cases.
2. Improvement appeared within a span of 3 to 6 months.
3. The study recommends this scar treatment can also be used as a preventive method immediate after a surgical wound has healed.
4. Of all non-invasive treatments, the doctors report silicones seem to be generally the only ones that are able to manage scarring without significant side-effects.

Source: Dermatotherapy and Cosmetology Center, Pune, India

The study occurred in India

South Asian skin is brown to dark brown. Brown and African skin tones are most prone to serious scarring. Doctors hoped to find the best scar removal that was effective, inexpensive and non-surgical.

• This particular study focused on keloid scars, which are disfiguring tissue growths, because ethnicity is a key factor in formation of keloids.

The study also found pressure combined with silicone impacted keloid size.