Your scar appears to be hypopigmented – which is why it appears whitish compared to the rest of your skin colour. This type of scars are actually pretty common after any type of surgical procedure – in fact, doctors are trained since medical school to identify these types of scars on the chest and stomach, in order to infer what types of surgery the patient may have gone for.
Hypopigmented scars are white because there’s an absence of the melanin pigment producing cells in scar tissue (after your surgery).
There are reports that laser treatments can be effective with improving the appearance of these scars – it’s rare to get 100% improvement though. Usually, 30-40% improvement is a pretty good outcome.
The Fractionated CO2 Laser (3 – 4 treatments) may improve hypopigmented scars by allowing some migration of pigment producing cells to repopulate the white area.
Another alternative is to “camouflage” the white color. The colour of your skin is “matched” to a tattoo pigment. This is tattooed into your white scar tissue to replace the lost color due to the lack of melanin. You will need a specially trained tattoo artist.
