Keloids are difficult because removing one can produce another. Treatment is usually a combined plan rather than surgery alone, and this page explains how that plan is built.
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Raised scars behave differently from flat scars, and the plan follows the behaviour rather than the label.
Injections, pressure, silicone and selected surgery.
Read more →Improving the direction, width and tightness of a scar.
Read more →The wider pillar including tissue expansion and grafting.
Read more →Scars from burns, which behave differently again.
Read more →What genuinely helps a healing scar at home.
Read more →Consented examples of scar and reconstructive work.
Read more →Bring a note of when the scar started, what caused it, and anything already tried, including injections given elsewhere. Previous treatment strongly influences what is sensible next.
Photographs taken over time are genuinely useful, because whether a keloid is still growing or has settled changes the plan.
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Dr. Ashutosh Shah is a Plastic, Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgeon (DNB) practising in Surat, Gujarat. The work covered by this site is reconstructive, which means restoring form and function after birth differences, burns, injury, cancer surgery, infection and chronic wounds.
Consultations are unhurried. You are told what the problem is, which options genuinely apply, what each involves, and what it will realistically achieve, including where an operation is not the right answer.
Keloid treatment is usually a course rather than a single procedure, so cost is quoted per plan after the scar has been examined.
Scar and keloid consultations are attended by patients from across the city and the districts nearby.
Each page below covers one kind of work at the Surat clinic, with the questions patients ask about it, the cost band and how to reach the team.
These are the questions asked most often about raised scars. If yours is not here, send it on WhatsApp and the team will reply, usually the same day.
Ask your question →Because the tendency lies in how that person heals, not in the lump itself. Cutting a keloid out creates a fresh wound that can scar the same way, which is why surgery is usually combined with other treatment.
Many are. Injections, pressure, silicone and other measures are often used first, particularly for smaller or still active keloids. Surgery is reserved for selected cases.
Injections cause brief discomfort that most people tolerate well, and surgical treatment is done under anaesthesia. Discomfort afterwards is usually manageable with simple medication.
Keloid treatment is a course spread over months rather than a single visit, with review between sittings. The likely number of sittings is discussed once the scar has been examined.
No treatment erases a scar. The realistic aim is a flatter, softer, less itchy and less noticeable scar, and what is achievable for your scar is explained before you decide.
Ear keloids are common and often respond to a combined plan, with pressure devices playing a bigger part afterwards. Whether piercing can be repeated later is discussed honestly.
Cover varies because insurers may treat scar work as cosmetic unless there is a functional problem such as restricted movement, pain or repeated infection. The position is checked before treatment starts.
