1. A historical perspective on scar management -- 2. The global impact of scars -- 3. Medical conditions associated with scarring and fibrosis -- 4. Scars and scar management: ethical considerations -- 5. Scar histopathology and morphologic classification -- 6. The cellular and molecular basis of scarring: the paradigm of hypertrophic scarring after thermal injury -- 7. The biomechanics of scar formation -- 8. An approach to scar mitigation -- 9. Optimizing wound healing and scar formation -- 10. Medical managment of scars -- 11. Neurobiology of scars: managing pain and itch -- 12. Surgical scar revision -- 13. Lasers and light devices in scar management -- 14. Laser-assisted delivery of therapeutic agents -- 15. Fat grafting for scar treatment -- 16. Multimodal scar management -- 17. Atrophic scar management -- 18. Scar management in skin of color -- 19. Rehabilitative burn scar management -- 20. Scar camouflage -- 21. Medical tattooing -- 22. A pediatric perspective -- 23. A perspective from military medicine -- 24. Recovery and reintegration after burn injury -- 25. Integrating scar management into clinical practice -- 26. Scar treatment, restoration, and prevention- beyond the horizon? -- 27. Fetal wound healing -- 28. Clinical scar research: quantitative and qualitative assessment of hypertrophic burn scars.