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
Even though many times you’d be fine without them, there’s a small but significant chance that a cut like that can become infected and very dangerous to your health. Stitches substantially reduce infection and re-opening risk, speed up healing, and can reduce scarring if you care about that sort of thing.
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