Scarring is a normal reaction to injury or surgery. In most instances, the resulting scar is not that obvious and does not represent a great problem to the patient. However for some patients regardless of how old a scar is or where it is on the body, they can sometimes cause distressing effects such as depression, social anxiety and general low self-esteem.
 
Surgical scar revision may be the only viable treatment. However, for the vast majority of scaring and burns, non-surgical treatments can be used in parallel or in sequence to bring satisfactory results.