Erin Allman-Updike

And so your skin is going to be able to – it's called re-epithelialize.

It's going to be able to make new skin to cover up this wound without a lot of additional help.

Most of the time, you're not going to get a scar from these types of burns.

If you do, it might just be pigmentation changes because of losses of like the melanocytes that are in more of the epidermal layer.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Okay.

Next is, again, within this considered second-degree burn, is called a deep partial thickness burn.

And the deep partial thickness burns actually tend to hurt a little bit less than the first two.

And that's because they burn deeply enough that they're actually destroying our pain receptors in our skin.

These burns tend to be a lot drier than a superficial partial thickness burn.

Okay.

So you don't necessarily have blisters.

Or if you do, they're just not quite as wet as a superficial burn.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

These generally do need surgery.

Very often, these are deep enough that the skin is not going to be able to completely heal over this without some kind of surgical intervention.

And that means that they're at much higher risk of some kind of scar formation.