Will the fingerprint before it got burned still be the same when the skin grows back?
2007-03-07 19:25:31 · 7 answers · asked by weng. 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
The lines on the palms' skin are set in the deepest levels of the skin. If the burn is superficial, and the skin recovers well, the person will still have fingerprints after the recovery and they will be the same ones as before.
If the burn is very bad, it may be that the new skin consists completely of flat scar tissue, and so the person won't have any furrows in the skin and consequently no fingerprints. This plot is widely used in criminal fiction, but doesn't happen that often in real life, the burn will have to be so severe that the skin wouldn't have much chance to heal and build a scar tissue, the person is likely to need a skin transplantant for such a burn.
The above applies to burns, but also to other disfigurement causes as well (e. g. skin destroyed by acid).
2007-03-07 19:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by Rumtscho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the reason why fingerprints of severely burned fingers don't grow back is because it's replaced with a living scar tissue. If you actually cut away all of the skin so that it has to grow back, you'll get your fingerprints back. How do I know this? It's happened to me twice. I've always found it very interesting that my fingers would "remember" what my fingerprints are supposed to look like. How does it remember? A good question for genetics, and how does it translate to something as unique and particular as a fingerprint.
Yes, I got a scar lump in the middle of my healed fingerprint, but that's a small remnant of what used to be an entire missing fingerprint.
2007-03-07 19:40:44 · answer #2 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how bad the burn is. If it is a deep burn, then the fingerprints won't grow back. I've got lumps on the ends of two of my fingers like a raspberry instead of ordinary fingerprints where I burned my fingers when I was only 1.
2007-03-07 19:34:35 · answer #3 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in TV Skin keeps growing with the fingerprints. Besides a huge burn that will render fingers useless, you'll have to burn your fingers every so often as fingerprints will keep growing.
2016-03-28 23:11:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the burn was not that strong and the skin grew as it was the fingerprints of cours we be the same, but if the skin was completly burned the person will lose his fingerprints, there will be no more fingerprints any more for the burned finger
2007-03-07 19:35:27 · answer #5 · answered by Cinderella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad burn scars can obscure finger prints, fingerprints may not look the same again
2007-03-07 20:05:03 · answer #6 · answered by verbalise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the finger comes again and i am sure because i am the victim of this.
2007-03-08 01:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by Honey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋