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Scars and their cause
As your body attempts to close an open wound and protect itself from infection, it replaces normal skin tissue with rapidly generated scar tissue. The resulting scars, regardless of cause, leave a permanent reminder of the injury. However, the amount and type of scarring can be unpredictable.
The type of scar that develops depends as much on how your body heals as it does on your original injury. There are many variables affecting the severity of scarring, including the size and depth of the wound, blood supply to the area and the thickness of your skin. Some scars may become less noticeable with time. Others may actually enlarge.
After a thermal injury, such as a burn, normal pressure from the outer skin layers and underlying tissue is absent. The absence of normal pressure results in an irregular formation of scar tissue. As a result, scarring may continue long after an initial injury. Severe burn scars may take up to two years to mature.
There are three major types of burn related scars: Keloid, Hypertrophic and Contractures
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