Past Research

To evaluate the use of homografts in surgical treatement of keloids in comparison to the use of autografts in twenty-five patients the lesions have been excised intrakeloidally. Half of the resultant wound was covered with homograft and the other half with autograft. To elimate individual variations of wound healing, the autografts and homografts have been used in the same patient. The results in respect of cure (32 percent in both groups) and recurrence rate (68 percent autograft, 64 percent homograft) are almost similar in both experimental and control wounds. It takes longer time (30-40 days) for wound healing with homograft as compared to (7-10 days) with autograft. Keloid formed in 5 (20 percent) patients at donor site of autograft. Ude of homograft spared the patients from new keloid formation at donor sites.

Minimizing the Risk of Developing Keloids

As the number of African Americans interested in plastic surgery has risen, surgical technique improvements have been developed to reduce the risk of Keloid scarring. San Francisco Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Mabrie is committed to serving the black community in San Francisco, Oakland, and the East Bay, and specializes in techniques that minimize Keloids. Special consideration goes into suturing incisions and post-surgical treatment of the sutures. Covering the healing wound with hypoallergenic paper tape or silicon-gel sheets can limit or stop Keloid growth and certain injectable medications have been very effective as well.