Before & after
A selection of the hundreds of keloids and hypertrophic scars treated by Dr Buckley, photographed before and after. Several are followed up years later, which matters with keloids because recurrence is the thing you are trying to avoid.
Every photograph here is of a real patient treated at the Kerry Skin Clinic, published with their consent. The captions are Dr Buckley’s own, taken from the clinical record.
Results vary considerably. Size, age, site and skin type all change what is achievable, and no treatment removes a scar completely — what you are looking at is a scar made smaller and less noticeable, not skin returned to normal. These are not a guarantee of what any individual result will look like.
Clinical photographs are showing
These are real photographs of scars before, during and after treatment, including wounds part-way through healing.
Showing 20 of 20 cases
A single session of intralesional cryosurgery, photographed from treatment through to week seven. This sequence shows what healing actually looks like: swelling, then blistering and weeping, then a dry scab that separates on its own.
What the procedure looks like: the cryoprobe in place during treatment, and the same ears one week later while the treated tissue is healing.
Shave excision followed by one session of cryosurgery, photographed at two years and again fifteen years later.
Two shave excisions, four sessions of cryosurgery and intralesional steroids, photographed two years later and again thirteen years later.
Photographed 13 months after two sessions of cryosurgery, with the interim result after the first session.
Six years after radiosurgical excision, one session of intralesional cryosurgery and one of intralesional steroids.
Before, and four months after one session of intralesional cryosurgery.
After two cycles of intralesional cryosurgery combined with intralesional steroids.
Shown before, immediately after shave biopsy, and two years after shave excision, cryosurgery and intralesional steroids.
Two years after shave excision, cryosurgery and intralesional steroids.
Three months after shave excision, cryosurgery and intralesional steroids.
An ear keloid before and after excision with radiosurgery.
This keloid had been incompletely excised in hospital and was photographed here eighteen months later. Shown again seven years after intralesional cryosurgery, from the front and from behind the ear.
Seven years after radiosurgical excision and intralesional cryosurgery, from the front and from behind the ear.
After excision, intralesional cryosurgery and cosmetic camouflage. Camouflage does not treat the scar; it conceals what remains after treatment.
Before, and four months after a single session of intralesional cryosurgery.
Before, four days after treatment, and three months after a second session of cryosurgery.
“Very happy with the result”
Six months after two sessions of cryosurgery and one radiosurgical excision.
“Delighted”
Two months after a third session of cryosurgery, shown from two angles.
Seven weeks after a third session of cryosurgery, fifteen months after the first photograph was taken.
“Another great result”