Many individuals suffer from unsightly and often painful keloid scarring. You don’t have to live out your life being embarrassed by these scars. You can easily regain your confidence, and these scars do not have to be permanent since…
Stretch marks after pregnancy is a harsh reality you have to deal with, just like busy schedules and swollen ankles. When a baby is healthy and is rapidly growing, tissue tension is bound to cause stretch marks and when…
Keloids are the inherent defect in the body’s wound healing process. They’re a type of raised scar. They occur where the skin has healed after an injury, and can grow to be much larger than the original injury that…
As much as you’d like to forget your pimpled past, your face remembers—in the form of scars. From annoying, dark hyper-pigmentation marks, to red spots, to deep craters–acne scars are among the most dreaded skincare issues. Luckily, we’ve turned…
For many of us, stretch marks are those unwelcome scars that we’d like to just magically disappear. Stretch marks, or striae, mostly emerge on the abdomen, buttocks, thighs and breasts due to a certain kind of tension on skin…
India is seen as diabetes and coronary heart disease capital of the world. According to the current estimates, India will soon have the highest number of heart disease cases in the world. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is a…
Keloids tend to be larger scars than the wound edges themselves and are often described as having edges that spill over. On the other hand, hypertrophic scars do not have edges that spill over but do rise upwards. These…
It is said that every scar tells a story and in India, there has been a rise in acid burn cases due to increased media exposure, hate crimes, and easy availability of caustic acids. Acid burn victims undergo physical,…
The extent of scarring due to burns is related to age of the burn, ethnic origin, the severity, depth and location of the burn. Research shows that less severe burns (also called superficial partial thickness burns) that heal in…
“Be the type of person who leaves a mark.” While this statement is highly motivational, the irony is that no one would want anything to leave a mark on their skin. Burn scars are not just a mark on…