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
Wounds heal from the bottom up if they don’t close on their own or aren’t closed with stitches. This means a lot more surface area to heal and more exposed tissue to be infected. Your body can spend a few days sealing a well-approximated (edges together) wound, or it can take significantly longer to fill the wound layer by layer with healthy tissue. Delayed wound healing increases the risk of infection.
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