When I was a teen I was playing basketball and collided heads with someone. It cut my eyebrow open maybe 1/2 inch. I was okay besides some bleeding. But people were telling me I should go get it stitched.
Ball was life, so I kept playing and now its fine I even have a cool scar. I have even heard other people over the years show me scars and say stuff like “I probably should have got stitches but whatever” and most of their scars looked fine besides the fact they were scars.
So why get stitches unless its an obviously huge cut that wont close by its self?
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There’s one more point that hasn’t been touched on yet, and that’s skin flexibility. Lots of your movement is reliant on having skin that can loosen and tighten when needed as muscle is relaxed and stretched, and poorly-healed wounds in these places can develop very complex scars that interfere with that flexibility a lot — even to the point of limiting motion.
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