When I was in my younger days, I worked as a glazier. One of the occupational hazards of this trade was/is getting cut a lot; mostly on your hands and wrists. Some of the cuts would be deep, others would be shallow, but they would all be relatively clean. Early on, I found that healing went a lot faster if I was to just wash a cut and then let it be. Especially with the deeper cuts, a bandage would almost always lead to some level of infection; leaving a cut open to the air would be painful on occasion<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> but seldom led to any infection at all. The only problems with not closing the deeper cuts is that the resulting scars are worse than if the cuts are surgically closed; parts of my hands look like a road map: And, customers would complain if you got blood on their draperies. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />