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10-20-2010, 12:27 PM
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Long story short, I cut my face 2 weeks ago and had to get stitches (surgical glue actually). I now have a nice scar on my upper cheek. 
Is there anything I can do to reduce the scarring or will I have to change my avatar to "ScarFace"?  |
10-20-2010, 12:30 PM
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10-20-2010, 12:32 PM
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10-20-2010, 12:33 PM
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10-20-2010, 12:34 PM
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10-20-2010, 12:43 PM
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10-20-2010, 12:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston | | | 95% of the stuff you can do to reduce scarring should have been done the first 2 weeks. Everything else will have very little noticeable effect with the exception of plastic surgery. Basically you should avoid any movement of the area while healing and hope the doctor got it glued up tight. I have a scar on my wrist that is nearly 1/4" wide because it's right on a joint. The scar on my shin is maybe 1/16" wide because it was on an area that was easy to avoid movement.
BTW, all scars must come with the story of how you got it. If it's not manly enough, it's cool to make something up. |
10-20-2010, 01:16 PM
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10-20-2010, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by need4mospd  95% of the stuff you can do to reduce scarring should have been done the first 2 weeks. | Yep. Antibiotic ointment and/or olive oil on it would have helped with any scarring. As it is, learn to live with it and make up a good yarn to tell anyone who asks how you got it. |
10-20-2010, 01:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dallas | | | what need4mospeed said^
i have a few on my face, and once they are there, they don't get less noticeable over the years...one across the bridge of my nose that shows up more as i get older
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10-20-2010, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonyak chicks dig scars. | Yup! I have a scar across the bridge of my nose..... and between my eyebrows.... It'll fade in time, though it may be more visible after you get some sun.
I say deal with it.
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10-20-2010, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ()smoke() one across the bridge of my nose that shows up more as i get older |
OK, what did you do to get that scar? Something incredibly stupid like I did? (I snuck up on my old deaf sleeping dog, got about three inches from his face and screamed at the top of my lungs.)
It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.... 
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10-20-2010, 01:51 PM
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10-20-2010, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex OK, what did you do to get that scar? Something incredibly stupid like I did? (I snuck up on my old deaf sleeping dog, got about three inches from his face and screamed at the top of my lungs.)
It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.... |
nothing that daring! i'd love to see that one on film though!
mine involved a childhood friend home from the marines on leave while i was in college, a large group of inebriated hockey players disagreeing with him breaking a bottle over his head in a bar, someone shoves his girlfriend, and, well...let's just say i can take a punch, and those hockey players are happy to hand them out 
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10-20-2010, 03:16 PM
|  | Ampeeeeeeg \o/ | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Israel | | My 16 years old cousin has a long scar on his left cheek and he gets all the chicks. Perhaps it's not that bad.
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10-20-2010, 03:19 PM
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10-20-2010, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | I got the scar from a knife fight in prison.
No wait. I saved a child from a burning building.
Okay I confess. I was in my office practicing before a gig. When I stood up to take my bass off the headstock hit the light fixture (very low ceiling). The dome shattered and I ducked to get out of the way of the glass raining down on me. A glass shard sliced my right cheek as it fell. I ran to the bathroom to get a look and try to stop the bleeding. My face looked pretty bad (more than usual) so I ran next door to my neighbor who is a physician's assistant. Dr. Fritz stitched me up with surgical glue and butterfly bandages. So I spent the whole weekend gigging with a large frigg'n bandage on my face! |
10-20-2010, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Axtman glass raining down on me. A glass shard sliced my right cheek as it fell. | This part is OK, I would make up the rest of the story. |
10-20-2010, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Seattle, Washington | | Don't worry. The Lakland bass survived with only a small dent.
I am going to tell people that I got the scar while saving a kid from a burning building.....how was I supposed to know that he had a knife? |
10-20-2010, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex OK, what did you do to get that scar? Something incredibly stupid like I did? (I snuck up on my old deaf sleeping dog, got about three inches from his face and screamed at the top of my lungs.)
It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.... | Sorry, but I have to ask: what made you think that was a good idea? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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