Question
If your incision opens and takes months to heal and close but the skin does not turn black.........is this considered skin necrosis?


Answer
No...necrosis is skin death. If a wound wont heal...maybe it needs a stitch from underneath removing, if its preventing new tissue from closing the gap...or a new stitch or glue to help it stay closed? Open wounds also usually need antibiotics to stop pus from forming.


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Thanxs tracy........i had a difficult time healing from both BL....the incision opened up......took months to heal. Im a smoker and i DID quit 8 weeks prior to surgery. My PS thought this did have to do with my history of being a smoker. I thought necrosis happened in smoker's.........is that true? Or can it happen even if you arent a smoker? Why is it that the incision opens like that? Do you think it has to do with somethinf the PS did wrong? Im sooooo scared to have more surgery.