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When an elderly person gets a cut/abrasion and new skin grows over it to heal it... is the new skin just like that of a younger individual? Or does the new skin also have the defects that come with age (ie: the new skin is much like the 'old' skin)?

by /u/ShadowHandler in /r/askscience

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