Well guys, my lip has finally healed all the way over but now there is a chunk of something rock hard in there, size of like a q-tip head. It doesn't hurt and my only guess is it is scar tissue. I do not know about fighting injuries but I am sure you guy's lips must bust wide open every few months so you'd know what's up.
If the injury matters I got hit with a baseball. My lip split was as wide as my ring finger (i have fat hands tho) After It happened I was drunk so I stayed and drank beer and even ate a gas station hot dog at 1:30am. I did not clean it or anything that night. The next morning it was swollen but no pain, still didn't clean it til that night. That night just peroxide'd it good. Then it started ripping open a few times a day. I survived by applying benzocaine every 2-3 hours for 1 week. I went to the Ocean and it ripped open on a wave but I stayed to swim. That was the last day it hurt.
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I took a puck in the face last year playing hockey and it split my lower lip open from the inside (teeth cut into it). I waited 4 hours at the hospital (emergency) at which point I was told that this sort of injury heals itself (because of saliva) and they really can't do anything about it. Long story short, it took 3 months for my qtip size scar tissue to heal and fully go away... basically, give it time and it will go away, but if the cut was nasty enough and you ended up cutting the outside layer of your skin, the scar may remain (experience talking, I took an elbow to the face in a mosh pit something like 15 years ago and I still have that scar on my lip).
Probably scar tissue, should go down with time, probably always be messed up though if it was that wide and you just left it alone, no butterfly stitches at least? Good luck with that
I got kicked in the mouth once and my teeth went right below my lip. For a while you could see the scar and if I pushed on it with my tongue you could see scar tissue as you say. Now I can only feel it on the inside of my lip if I push on it with my tongue. Not even noticeable.
