Medical intervention
Although the body has an effective system in place for banishing infection and repairing the skin, sometimes medical assistance is needed for the safest healing process. If a cut is deep, or has an object embedded in the tissue, it is best to go to hospital for more urgent treatment. Signs that you will need stitches include bleeding that persists for over ten minutes of applying pressure or if the cut looks particularly deep. Stitches are loops of thread used to hold skin together so that there is less of a gap to fill during the healing process. This makes the healing process speedier, minimising the chance of infection and scarring. Once the skin has healed, hospital staff can remove the thread.