Can doctor's fuse new skin into a scar without an open wound site. This is for an accident over 3 years ago.

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They’d have to make sure of a good blood supply so might have to scrape away some scar tissue as it has no blood supply. Sounds like the blood is right there if it’s ripping open. there is also a techique where a graft remains partly attached to it’s donor site while it grows onto the new site, the trimmed up. Where is your scar?

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