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.

• All of this started with a study of how well pressure prevents scarring.
• Until now, doctors treating burns have assumed they need to use pressure to prevent scars.
• And they know silicone helps reduce scarring.
• They put the two together. Silicone on pressure sheets helped.

So can a layer of silicone without the sheets.

This work was at a major Institute of Surgical Investigation. Doctors keep proving silicone reduces scarring. They still haven’t figured out why. Or why applying a layer of silicone can be as helpful as sheets when surgery is not an option.

Here is how the medical investigators put it: “Improvement has been observed in recent years by many researchers using silicone gel treatment in hypertrophic burn scars.  (Why it works) remains to be determined, but it is not due to pressure, temperature, oxygen tension…” – Journal of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery

It may be that it’s the protection of the silicone – not the pressure - that works on hypertrophic (raised) burn scars.  A layer blocks infection. It reduces irritation. Yes, a silicone sheet protects. And a flexible layer of silicone gel protects just as well. Plus it won’t come off when skin flexes.

Pressure is essential and silicone sheets are the standard after surgery for large burns. But for smaller wounds with smaller scars, a scar removal cream made with silicone can be enough. No pressure needed.

No matter who does the stitches, there will be a scar. It may be a tidy white line, a prominent red scar, or heaped-up scarring known as keloids. This is thick scar tissue growing far beyond the confines of the original wound. Scarring is the body’s natural response when healing. The best plastic surgeon in the world will leave a scar, and sloppy stitching can leave a jagged, protruding mark. It is possible to fade and shrink a stitches scar.

An antibiotic prescribed to prevent infection will minimize a stitches scar, because it promotes healing. Slow healing stimulates scar formation. Topical silicone has also been proven to promote healing, add moisture (essential to healing), and help flatten the scar. Silicone therapy can also alleviate redness and pain and is available in over-the-counter creams and gels. Of the more costly medical options, laser treatments are considered specific, that is, contained to the scar tissue. Dermabrasion can damage surrounding skin and may be limited to smaller scars. Minimizing a scar takes months and frequent medical sessions, or repeated applications of a scar cream.

Home remedies include swallowing flax seed oil and rubbing Vitamin E or cocoa oils directly on the stitches scar. Benefits have not been proven. Staying out of the sun does work. Scarred skin is extremely susceptible and will permanently darken when exposed to UV rays. Sunscreen is not advised on new stitches. A stitches scar should be protected from the sun.

What to do?

You can have additional scar “revision” surgery. There is dermabrasion (scraping scar tissue down), chemical peels and laser scar treatments. You may say, “around my tummy?” Many prefer to avoid these medical scar therapies because they would make scars more apparent for the many months of scar treatment.

Silicone scar creams and gels give you private tummy tuck scar treatment.

The advantage of a silicone scar gel is that it is invisible while it works. You avoid drawing more attention to a tummy tuck scar during treatment.

• Silicone scar treatment forms a protective layer which discourages infection from outside sources.
• In addition, the layer encourages retention of moisture.
• Moisture is essential to speeding healing, which reduces scarring.

They think, “Why admit it if I don’t have to?”

Plastic surgeons take pains to hide breast augmentation scars. But the fact is, any wound leaves a scar. In some people, breast augmentation scars can be redder, wider, or more heaped-up above the skin surface.

You can get started on scar treatment as soon as the breast augmentation wounds have healed.   Silicone cream is now commonly used after plastic surgery. Doctors in the UK routinely employ silicone scar therapy alongside various  scar treatments. Silicone scar treatment is often recommended as immediate therapy and continuing therapy.

Why Does Silicone Work as a Scar Treatment?

• Silicone helps cells retain moisture. Moisture always facilitates healing, which reduces scar size and color.
• Silicone in gel or cream form creates a layer of infection protection. Infection severely increases scar formation and preventing it is essential scar treatment.
• Silicone applied directly to a scar penetrates to deeper layers, where the cells are weaving into hard scar tissue.

You ask your doctor. He talks about something called “scar revision”. This means more surgery, to correct the old scar from the first surgery. ALL cuts scar. No one can predict how much. After expensive, painful “revision” on that old scar you could end up with a new scar that looks as bad or worse.

Try an at-home scar treatment first on that old scar. Silicone works best.

It’s because silicone impacts the tough fibers of scars. A major study may prove that static electricity breaks up scar tissue. Silicone attracts static electricity.

Silicone fades scar color. A major study of silicone on scars found impressive results.

• Doctors documented improvement in 50% of cases. Improvement included fading .
• Improvement appeared within a span of three to six months.

A faded scar looks smaller.  A smaller scar diminishes the attention to the color.

Don’t think older scars are hopeless.

A scar will look worse before it looks better unless you use a scar treatment. Left alone, it can look red, and appear raised for up to one year. It is certain to look that way for the first two to four months.

Most plastic surgeons will wait one year before thinking about a scar revision surgery. This is troubling to people whose scars can be seen in public. They want to do something immediately.

Scar Therapy Helps Fading

• Reducing color can make a mark look smaller.
• Scar fading gives the appearance of a flatter scar.
• A medical study of silicone gel found one in three people experienced scar fading

Doctors acknowledge over-the-counter scar treatment is often sufficient

Once a year has passed, plastic surgeons may go to work on scar removal. Often they use a scar cream in conjunction with their techniques. This is because of the healing benefits of silicone. You may find  at-home use of scar cream eliminates the need for costly medical techniques.

• Silicone scar treatment can help reduce the appearance of some scars.
• No scar can be completely erased.
• Silicone-based products are frequently used alongside laser scar treatment, collagen  injections, and dermabrasion.

He or she may use the term “minimal scarring.” But there is more you can do to minimize surgery scars. Take take quick scar treatment action on your own.

Why is Quick Action Essential?

1. New tissue is forming even before a wound closes.
   1. Wounds bind by growing tough connective fibers. They weave themselves together to pull edges of skin closed.
   2. To affect scarring, therapy must begin quickly. The inter-weaving of connective cells begins immediately.

Note: Very gentle massage incorporating silicone scar treatment can help. It breaks up tough tissue before it heaps up and leaves a disfiguring reminder of an incision.

1. Scars need soothing early on.
   1. They itch. Scratching is a bad idea when an incision is healing.
   2. They are swollen and hurt.
   3. Irritants such as wind can be especially painful.

Note: Silicone scar treatments can be especially soothing. It also promotes healing, which cuts the length of time the scar hurts.

3.  Any skin injury requires protection.

1. The danger is infection, which is debilitating and may require re-opening the wound.
2. Infection slows or stops the healing process. Slow healing increases fibre growth.
3. Regenerating cells are sensitive to bumping, and even air moving across the wound.

1. Scar tissue has no sweat glands.
2. There are no hair follicles in scarred skin.
3. Scars are less resistant to sunlight. UV rays change the color of scars.
4. The tissue is thicker and fibrous.
5. The pigment is different: either lighter than surrounding skin, or a different color.

Can You Impact Those Differences?

• There is nothing to be done about the first two differences in scar tissue. Scars are simply inferior quality skin.
• You can use an SPF 30 on a scar, if you go in the sun at all. A day of UV rays can erase months of scar fading treatment.
• The last two can be influenced by a scar treatment. Surgery removes thicker tissue, shots can reduce fibres below the skin. Silicone encourages size reduction, and promotes color fading over time.