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biopsy punches - 4/19/2010 10:57:40 AM

lychos999

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I recently got two surface bars put in my chest and they used a biopsy punch to remove the flesh where the ends of the bar would be and it hurt like crazy. My girlfriend has dermal anchors in her back and they have to use a biopsy punch for those as well. She accidentally ripped one out and it scarred when it healed, when she got a new one put in they just punched out the old scar tissue and put the new anchor in.

My question is this, has anyone into sharps play ever played with a biopsy punch? And if so how did you limit scarring? Do you punch through old scar tissue so you aren't marking other parts of the body? And what if any are the long term medical effects of repeated play like this?

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RE: biopsy punches - 4/19/2010 2:49:17 PM

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when you use a biopsy punch you take out an area of tissue - and the healing causes scarring. There is very little you can do to stop this, and how much you scar depends on skin type and ethnicity. There is also the fact that it isn't a linear incision which tends to heal neater - its round-ish and has to heal from the inside out (more or less)

The point is, you can't tell what sort of scar you will make, and you WILL scar. Using scarred areas might minimise more scarring though. There is stuff you can put on scars to minimise them, but if you have metal in the scar, I don't think this will make a lot of difference ( foreign body reaction)

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RE: biopsy punches - 4/27/2010 10:56:09 AM

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I used to be a product manager for a very well-known brand of biopsy needles! The entire purpose of the needle is to remove a core of tissue so that the pathologist can examine the cells, and the process always leaves a tissue void. With soft tissues, like a liver biopsy, the tissue grows back fairly easily but in other body parts it can leave fibrotic scar; everybody is different in how they heal. I don't think you are going to "play" with one of the larger needles on a regular basis without doing some scarring, at least in most people. I would stick to 18-25AWG needles myself, maybe the rare 14G.

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RE: biopsy punches - 4/27/2010 6:26:51 PM

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