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What is the benefit of scar tissue vs. normal skin regeneration?

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Scar is normal: Healing with scar tissue is part of the normal healing process. At times a scar can become wide - a hypertrophic scar or the scar can keep on growing as in a keloid. Hypertrophic or keloid scars may need some treatment such as surgical scar revision or cortisone injections. See you doctor if you think you are having excess scarring.

Answered 10/1/2013

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None: Scar is not more beneficial, but it is how we heal.

Answered 7/21/2012

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None: There is no benefit to scar tissue, but that is how we heal.

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