Use of olive oil in preventing hypertrophic burn scar formation / Aedy Zulhelmi Akman

This project aimed to study the effect of olive oil in preventing hypertrophic burn scar formation by applying olive oil topically. Two types of olive oil were used as preventive treatment of hypertrophic scar which were virgin olive oil and pure olive oil. Sprague Dawley rats were used as animal models to form hypertrophic bum scar by introducing both scalding water and mechanical pressure on the burn wound. Nevertheless, after 30 days of wound healing, normal scar were formed instead of hypertrophic scar in all group of rats. Rats that received olive oil treatment showed small size of normal scar compared to the untreated rats.