Every operation leaves a scar.
The scar may be hidden to be less conspicuous, but it is still there.

All scars undergo a maturation process which takes up to 18 months. During this time the scar will become redder or darker, shiny, lumpy and itchy before it settles down and usually pales in colour.
It is important that you look after your scar by keeping it out of the sun, use a high sun factor, massage it every day after the skin has healed with a non-perfumed cream for 5-10 minutes and tape it the rest of the time after surgery.
The longer you do this the better the scar will be.
You can also use silicone creams/ lotions on the scar, applying them once a day, but you should not massage with silicone products as this is likely to irritate the scar.

Here are some examples of good scars first:   

Some scars become darker than you normal skin colour; some paler.

There are three recognised bad forms of scarring:
Keloid (darker, raised, itchy and larger than the original wound)

Hypertrophic (darker, raised and itchy, but it stays within the original wound margins)

Stretched (can be either paler or darker, but is wider than the original wound)

These can be treated, but with limited success.

If you know you suffer from any of these forms of bad scarring you should consider any surgery very carefully.

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