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Hot food in touch with skin can cause burns that can destroy hair follicles ?

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Severe burns can: Thermal burns, if severe enough, can destroy hair follicles. The burn has to be fairly severe and destroy the dermis and epidermis to result in hair follicle destruction. Burns of this severity are usually called full thickness or third degree burns.

Answered 9/10/2018

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