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what to use for scars

i have had a week ago, breast reduction w/implants and my arms
reduced. i have dissolvable stitches. what should i use on the
scares to minimize them?

thanks

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  1. Jamey Lancaster Says:
    May 9th, 2007 at 11:39 am

    I will share with you my experience. I keloid badly - which is always a
    surprise to my docs. My arms and navel keloided, and so did the scars from
    my face-lift. The ones from my breast lift with implants didn’t, which was
    a big surprise - nor did my bikini line TT scar keloid badly. I’m pretty
    sure that if I had had an anchor incision, it would have keloided pretty
    badly, as my navel did.

    Once the incisions have healed (gotta let them heal first), then I got kelo
    cote

    It was at the recommendation of my dermatologist, and I’d waited a full
    year, and the keloids were pretty bad. I wish I’d started with the kelo-cote
    just as quickly as the incisions healed. I started using it, you just
    just a very little bit, and it flattened all my scars except the ones behind
    my ears, which we are now treating with kenalog injections.

    I’ve heard that other plastic surgeons have recommended ScarCare and
    ScarGuard - which I bought, but which I found to be like putting a think
    coat of nail polish on my scars. Used up too much, and the dried liquid
    tended to peel right off.

    I really like kelo-cote. Now that the scars are flat, I use Scargo on them
    to help make them white. I’m 18 months out from my surgery.

    Two months ago, I had an accident on my Segway, and I landed on my face.
    The doctor in the ER glued a 2" cut together that went from above my eyebrow
    through the eyebrow, down to the bottom of the bone around the eye. It took
    about 10 days for the glue to come off. From that point on, I put the
    kelo=cote on it. There’s hardly even a line. I did end up with one small
    half inch keloid in one place where the skin was literally torn from my
    glasses, on the side of my nose, up near the tear duct. It has not gotten
    any worse, and is getting flatter.

    Pam in Niceville

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    i have had a week ago, breast reduction w/implants and my arms
    reduced. i have dissolvable stitches. what should i use on the
    scares to minimize them?

    thanks

    _____

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