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When before skin grows over stitches?
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Stitches: It depends on the technique of suturing and the thickness of the sutures.Usually 2 or 3 weeks, but they are easily removed from the long ends. More importantly is how long it takes to form an epithelial tract down and around the suture. Again this is related to suture thickness but 3 to 6 weeks.
Answered 5/10/2013
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