Secondary Lac Repair to the face

If you do front line medicine at all, (ER, clinics, rural medicine, relief medicine, etc), you will see cases like this a lot. People will not seek out medical attention within the ideal time frame or laceration repairs will fail. There is then a choice to be made. There are risk to delayed closure, (infection, increased risk of dehiscence), but in some cases the reward is worth the risk. In cosmetic areas, like the face, the choice to repair typically takes precedence. It is critical that these wounds are cleaned, debrided if necessary and the basement membrane re-exposed or the repair will fail. I am still hoping to get a follow up video on this one but I may be unsuccessful as this was a clinic patient. Time will tell.