Depending on where they are, scars can make us feel at ill at ease or embarrassed about our looks. Scarring occurs when the skin's structure changes as a result of a wound healing. Once formed, a scar never goes away. It may fade in color, become flatter and less noticeable, but there will always be an alteration in the skin. While a scar can never be completely removed, it can be altered somewhat.
Doctors can change the shape or pattern, raise depressed scars or lower raised ones.
Scars that are particularly pink in color may benefit from laser treatment or a combination of medication and laser. You won't end up with perfect skin, but perhaps one you'll feel less self-conscious living in. Improved Treatment options are now available to spare people with ulcerative colitis the embarrassment, inconvenience and expense of wearing an external bag to collect waste after a permanent ileostomy, says Robert Fry, MD, director of the division of colon and rectal surgery. Until relatively recently, the standard form of surgical treatment was removal of the entire colon and rectum. The small intestine was sewn to the abdominal wall as an ileostomy and waste was collected in a bag placed over the ileostomy.