Keloids are overgrown scars formed out of surgical incisions, lacerations and burns. Keloids can also form due to inflammation caused by wearing ear piercings, tattoos, pimples, ingrown hairs or even minor mechanical trauma like the rubbing of skin or bumping into an object. For reasons not known, people with dark skin tend to be more prone to keloids and in some cases it is an inherited tendency. And in many cases it re-occurs after treatment. Out of many treatment options available to erase keloids treating them with carbondioxide laser is effective.

CO2 Procedure
Carbon-dioxide laser treatment is a superior treatment to an injection of Carticosteroid ( such as triamcinolone ), which is conservative and low tech. With carbondioxide laser treatment for keloid removal, has merits like better delineation of target tissue from surrounding tissue, less bleeding. The laser treatment also reduces the recurrance of keloid formation again.

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