Some deep cuts leave us wondering, to stitch or not to stitch? I have found on some of the smaller deep cuts my children have gotten, that superglue works just fine. Superglue is used in war times to close up wounds and even used in the ER instead of stitches. I checked this out with a Family Practice Dr. friend we have and he confirmed that in fact super glue works just fine in most small yet deep cuts.
An example of a small yet deep cut was my son's hip wound from wrecking onto the spikey, metal peddle of his BMX bike. He had a pretty good cut right on his pelvic bone area that was about 1/4 of an inch deep and about 3/4 of and inch long. We had super glue at the house, not the $100 is was going to cost to go to the ER. It bled some and the super glue held it together long enough to heal. I put new glue on each day where the cut popped open and as it began to scab, the glue came off. He has a pretty good scar on his hip, but it is in an inconspicuous area of his body, and it will change as he grows too.
You have to be the judge of whether super glue will work or whether you should go to the dr. Self reliance in first aid is a good thing and there are many things that can be done at home that cost less and are just as effective as seeing a dr.
I do not recommend this method for cuts on the face. Have a dr. sew up those wounds to make the smallest scar possible. We learned from the cut on this same son's forehead, that when a cut is healing, if it gets sun on it, the scar will discolor. So make sure cuts on the face or where ever else you care about their visibility, are covered with a bandage and then put sunscreen on it always up to a year after the wound has healed to ensure proper blending of the healed skin with the existing skin at the site. This was the advise from the plastic surgeon attending at the ER we went to that sewed up his forehead.
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