Treatment Options for Scarring After an Accident

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Treatment Options for Scarring After an Accident

As an accident victim there are many questions that pop up after an automobile, motorcycle, truck or bicycle accident. Some of the most common are; “How badly am I injured?” “Is my car totaled?” “Do I have enough insurance to carry me?” “Will this accident affect me for the rest of my life?” If you have been injured in an accident you know all of the questions that continually go through you mind. Once you have been treated and are recovering you may be faced with the issue of permanent scarring. “Will this pink line down my cheek be forever?” “Will this surgery scar across my shoulder ever go away?”

Scarring is fibrous tissues that replace normal skin after injury and is a natural part of the healing process. Almost every wound will have scarring of varying degrees. The tissue produced in scarring is not identical to the tissue it is replacing. It is usually inferior to what it is replacing and doesn’t function as well. Less resistant to ultraviolet radiation, sweat glands and hair follicles don’t grow back. There are several treatments to lessen scarring;

- Topical treatments-This is the use of silicone gel sheeting is used by plastic surgeons as well as burn centers and provide nice results.

- Needling-This is a process where the area is needled continuously which will promote collagen forming in the scar area.

- Pressure garments-These are garment specifically made for the victim and worn 24 hours a day for anywhere from six months to a year. The constant pressure is believed to cause the scars to become softer and flatter. This process is used frequently with burn victims who have large areas of scarring.

- Steroid injections-Steroids are injected into the actual scar to flatten and soften the scar.

- Dermabrasion-This is the removal of the surface of the skin. This process is more effective in treating raised scars as opposed to scars that are sunken.

- Collagen injections-Collagen injections are used to treat sunken scars. Collagen is injected and the sunken scar rises to the surface of the skin. The effects are not permanent and this process has to be repeated on a regular basis.

- Surgery-The scars can be cut out and stitched up but you run the risk of the surgery scar healing the same way. A new form of treatment is laser surgery. It has been effective is lowering the redness of the scar but not as much in flattening the scar.

Your injuries are individual to you. Someone with the same injury will not scar the same or heal the same as you. It is important to have an honest dialogue with your doctor to determine the best treatment for you. When you break a bone you need for it to heal, the same with your skin. You, as well as your doctor, want you to be as close to what you were before your accident.

About The Author
Michael A. Schafer is anattorney who concentrates his law practice in personal injury litigation in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of “7 Potholes That Can Wreck Your Kentucky Accident Case” and “What You Don’t Know About Buying Car Insurance Can Hurt You”.

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Question from Mali: Compulsive liars? I mean Why?
Okay, So i know most people dont like reading about teenage drama.
Well this really aint what its about.

Okay, so I have a friend, no names, and over years, i have picked up she lies constantly, and its on the most smallest things, but yet over the years it has grown into bigger things.

For example.
I was walking to the bus, and i noticed she had a picture of her and some boy on her Notebook. I asked her “Whos that?” she replied “Oh ..that my friend, he died awhile back i miss him alot” and jsut went on about how he died, all this, well one day (the other day) i went on her myspace, and noticed she had a comment from THAT guy.
Then she later (knowing i wasent behind him) confessed that she lied about the boy that died to my cousin.

She also lies about her “health problems” which she said she had her appendix taken out.
and yet she shows no one her “scars” from the surgery.
she also said that she was in the hospital for over a month the summer about 2 years ago, when i knew she didnt.
She has also lied about being pregnant.
countless times.

and many many other things
small and big

I would just like to know, what would you do with a person like this?
or why someone would lie about death, or serious occurences.

Best answers:

Answer by kikimaus8
Call out her lies. She needs to have someone show her it’s bad to lie.

Answer by Guns N’ Roses
i know two people like that.
one being my female cousin and the other my female friend.
they both lie about stupid shit, they always try to make themselves sound cool or sexual around me for god knows why. i confront them on it, the female friend, her name is andrea, i dont talk to her anymore because of how continuous her lies were and my cousin, i am confronting her about them – telling her i know she is lying and she has stopped around me.

i cant stand liars, it sickens me and is fucking annoying.

Answer by Bookgirl
Have you been to her house? Is she being abused? Normally ppl who lie do it for attention and it stems from home. Something must be wrong in her home.

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