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  2. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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    Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.

  3. How to reduce the appearance of scars, according to experts - AOL

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    Usually associated with acne, this type of scar is caused by loss of collagen during the healing process and results in the thinning of the skin, according to Dr. Robyn Gmyrek, a board-certified ...

  4. Scar free healing - Wikipedia

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    Scar free healing is the process by which significant injuries can heal without permanent damage to the tissue the injury has affected. In most healing, scars form due to the fibrosis and wound contraction, however in scar free healing, tissue is completely regenerated. During the 1990s, published research on the subject increased; it is a ...

  5. Scarification - Wikipedia

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    The scars tend to spread as they heal, so final designs are usually simple, the details being lost during healing. Scarification being created. Some common scarification techniques include: Ink rubbing Tattoo ink (or similar agent) is rubbed into a fresh cut to add color or extra visibility to the scar. Most of the ink remains in the skin as ...

  6. Regeneration in humans - Wikipedia

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    This is in contrast to wound healing, or partial regeneration, which involves closing up the injury site with some gradation of scar tissue. Some tissues such as skin, the vas deferens , and large organs including the liver can regrow quite readily, while others have been thought to have little or no capacity for regeneration following an injury.

  7. Scar - Wikipedia

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    Scar revision is a process of cutting the scar tissue out. After the excision, the new wound is usually closed up to heal by primary intention , instead of secondary intention . Deeper cuts need a multilayered closure to heal optimally, otherwise depressed or dented scars can result.

  8. Skin grafting - Wikipedia

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    A full-thickness skin graft is more risky, in terms of the body accepting the skin, yet it leaves only a scar line on the donor section, similar to a Cesarean-section scar. In the case of full-thickness skin grafts, the donor section will often heal much more quickly than the injury and causes less pain than a partial-thickness skin graft.

  9. Moral Injury: Healing - The Huffington Post

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    The six sessions “represented the beginning of a process that the Marine would need to continue after the formal conclusion of the intervention.” Billie Grimes-Watson’s experience in therapy, last spring in the San Diego moral injury/moral repair group, underscores how long it can take to heal moral injury.