Why scar fading?

• Reducing color makes a mark look smaller.
• Scar fading gives the appearance of a flatter scar.
• Facial fading treatments can ease embarrassment.
• Silicone is proven effective for fading.

The plastic surgeon tried to hide his handiwork. Your facial scar may be at the hairline. Or under the ear. If it heals red, or purple, or multi-colored, it becomes obvious.

Tummy tuck scars, and breast reduction or improvement scars can’t be hidden well. An effective scar fading cream can be part of “managing” those scars.

Also, you can’t know for a year to eighteen months just how much your plastic surgery mark will fade. That’s how long normal fading takes. Until then, people can see you “had work done”.

You can encourage plastic surgery scars to fade sooner with a silicone scar fading cream.

• Silicone was once used to moisturize scars. By accident doctors realized it shrinks tissue and fade redness.
• Of course, a shrunken scar is also less noticeable. Silicone works to reduce scar size.

Scar Treatments

1. 100% Silicone gel or cream.

• Keeps moisture around the wound. Speeds healing. Fast healing cuts scar formation.
• Silicone is an infection barrier. Infection stops normal healing, which means more scar tissue piles up.
• Silicone reduces scar color and size.
• It’s used by doctors following scar surgery.
• Doctors recommend it for home scar treatment.

2. Onion extract.

• This is an older, homeopathic remedy.
• It was tested at a Texas hospital.
• Redness, itching and scar size stayed the same.

3. Vitamin E.

• This was also part of the Texas hospital test.
• It proved worthless for scars.
• It could help your overall health.

4. Copper Peptide.

• It boosts collagen.
• Collagen is bad. It’s what makes scars bulge.
• It may be fine for indented scars.

5. Arnica.

• Homeopathic remedy.
• It easily breaks down if it comes in contact with any other substance.

6. Siegesbeckia orientalis.

• This is the juice of a sticky bush, used to cover wounds. So there is some protection.
• The Chinese think it’s a weed and avoid it. The Chinese KNOW herbal medicine.

7. Sorbitan olivate.

• Basically, it’s olive oil.
• It can soften skin.
• Oil di olivia makes no permanent change in scarring.

8. Elicina.

• This is snail extract.
• There is no medical evidence it works to reduce scars.

You will find scar products made of silicone mixed with aloe or other moisturizers. No over-the-counter moisturizer can do what silicone does to draw and retain moisture. These products contain less healing silicone to make room for the moisturizer.

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.

• Infection brings healing to a standstill.
• The longer a wound or incision takes to heal, the more scar tissue builds up.
• The body is just trying to hold the wound together when it grows scar tissue.
• It’s going to try harder when infection stops healing.

The Italian research documents the need for what they call “a mechanical barrier against bacteria.” What they mean by “mechanical” is something you apply.

A home scar treatment using 100% silicone creates this kind of protective barrier. It  guards against infection,  blocks air, dust and other irritants.

More from the doctors in Italy: “As shown by the most up-to-date research, it is now possible to accomplish the pharmacological and non-surgical therapy of…scars by means of … chemical agents.”

Medical-grade silicone is a pharmacological and non-surgical therapy.

Why avoid surgery? When they cut they have to do a lot more to prevent scarring. The most difficult thing to do affect blood flow to the scar tissue to slow its growth.

-Article Source: Cattedra di Chirurgia Plastica Parma, Italy.

The results can help identify scar home treatment that can be effective.

A South Florida Medical Research Center studied topical scar compounds. The doctors evaluated silicone and vitamin E.

Vitamin E

1. This natural substance is marketed in scar removal products.
2. Pure vitamin E applied directly to scars is considered natural therapy.

The doctors reported “no significant” reduction in color or size of scars from Vitamin E applications.

Onion extract

A major Texas medical school put it to the test.

• They wanted to know if it reduced redness and itching.
• They also checked for change in the size of scars.
• People with surgical scars were evaluated.
• Only half were given an onion extract scar ointment.

The study found onion extract to be ineffective.

He ended up discovering scars help. The silicone acted as an improved scar reducer. Scar size decreased more rapidly than with pressure treatments without silicone.

Silicone:  How and What

In spite of major studies, doctors don’t know how it works.

A preeminent theory involves static electricity. A silicone scar ointment attracts static electricity. The electrons may break up thick fibers, flattening scars.

With major studies, doctors know what it does.

One proven benefit involves silicone’s ability to help cells retain moisture. Moisture always facilitates healing, which reduces scar size and color.

Silicone in topical or dressing form protects a scar from irritation and infection. Infection halts healing, which increases scarring.

Scar help in practice

• Silicone cream is now commonly used after plastic surgery. Doctors in the UK routinely employ silicone scar help alongside various surgical treatments.
• It is frequently used in the US for continued scar help after laser scar removal.

• Silicone in gel or cream form replaces self-adhesive silicone sheets that won’t stay on joints and flexible body parts.
• Massage deepens delivery of silicone, and can break up tough scar fiber.

Candidates for Facial Scar Treatment

1. Accident and trauma cause scarring. Even a common wound stitched in childhood can remain prominent for decades if not treated.
2. Plastic surgeons attempt to hide scars at the hairline and behind ears. But any wound leaves a scar and rude people make a sport of noticing plastic surgery remnants.
3. Earlobe and cheek scarring results from piercing. Both are risk areas for keloid and hypertrophic scarring, which is extremely disfiguring.
4. Burns scars. From the accidental cigarette burn to a kitchen fire or traumatic accident, burns cause deep damage and heaped-up tissue.

Because facial scars are already noticeable, some prefer to avoid a medical therapy which would make things look worse, even if only temporarily. Over-the-counter scar products can be invisible while at work.

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.

Scar fading can be readily accomplished. Not everyone knows what to call it, or what expectations to set.

Many people seek what they refer to as a scar reducer. Others search for the best scar removal option. Help, treatment, revision. Here’s the goal:

• Reducing color can make a mark look smaller.
• Scar fading gives the appearance of a flatter scar.
• Facial fading treatments can ease embarrassment.

A medical study of silicone gel found one in three people experienced scar fading. Lasers are effective over time. Dermabrasion is effective on protruding pigmented skin. When fading is the goal, surgery may be extreme as it leaves another scar.

A health note: Bright redness can mean a scar is infected, and you should see a doctor.