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?
In: Biology
Well for one, leaving it wide open significantly increases your chance of infection. It doesn’t take much to go from fine to life threatening.
closing a wound can also reduce scaring, while scars may seem “cool” they can also result in nerve damage which can lead to long term or life long daily pain.
deep wounds also are harder to control bleeding on, stitches help close the wound and stop bleeding.
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