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Scar Tissue – One year after IH Surgery
Most scar tissue remodels maximally by 1 year but continues to remodel (that means, become softer and softer and flatter) for the rest of your life. A keloid is very specific. It is a lumpy growth on top of your skin. That doesn’t sound like what you have. Most likely you have a soft linear scar tissue feeling along the length of your wound.
It will continue to become softer after one year. It’s a slow process.
You can expedite it with certain injections. Creams won’t work anymore at this stage. They work for the skin and earlier on.
If it bothers you, a good dermatologist and some plastic surgeons can inject, use lasers, or have other new technologies to soften up the scar.If it’s not causing pain, the hard scar will not cause any damage and is not hurting anything.