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Can an old open scar be removed and how? (Photo)

March 8, 2015
Asked By:help asap in North Carolina, NC

I was cut by a rusty zinc when i was a child, never got treated by a doctors, however it never closed up it got healed with this gap between and on top of that I have keratosis Polaris. Help me pls.

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