Femme's right. Usually, stiches and staples come out after one week. Your scar is supposed to be pretty much healed by then, but beware, a guy came in to our hospital a couple of moths ago, who had a long line of stiches in his leg for an injury that had been taken out the day before at another hospital. Well, he came into our emergency room, because the scar had reopened when he fell off his bike, and our surgeon had to re-stich it. The same thing can happen with stapled incisions, too, so take things easy for a couple of weeks even after the staples are removed.
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