Patient education
Scars After Surgery Guides
Written for someone looking at a scar and wondering whether it is normal. How a scar matures, the red flags that need care now, hypertrophic scar, keloid, contracture, the timing of treatment, and what scar care can honestly do.
All guides
9 guides
- Normal Scar Healing: What a Scar Does Over Twelve MonthsNormal healing
- Red Flags in a Healing Scar: Infection, Dehiscence and WorseRed flags
- Hypertrophic Scar or Normal Healing? Telling Them ApartHypertrophic scar
- Keloid: When a Scar Keeps GrowingKeloid
- Scar Assessment: When a Scar Needs to Be SeenAssessment
- Scar Treatment Timing: Why Maturation Comes FirstTiming
- Planning Scar Revision: What It Can and Cannot ChangeScar revision
- Scar Care That Helps, and Products That Do NotScar care
- When a Scar Restricts Movement: Contracture and FunctionContracture
Concerned about a scar that is not settling?
Contact the team to have it assessed. A scar is judged against its stage of healing, and the first question is whether it needs care now or simply more time.