Scarification

Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can take roughly 6–12 months to heal. In the process of body scarification, scars are purposely formed by cutting or branding the skin by various methods (sometimes using further sequential aggravating wound-healing methods at timed intervals, like irritation). Scarification is sometimes called cicatrization (from the French equivalent).

This article is about the body modification method. For the process used to encourage germination in plants, see Scarification (botany). For the route of administration, see intradermal injection. For the technique for preparing the soil for seedbeds in forestry, see silviculture. For the Gotham episode, see Scarification (Gotham). For the 19th century bloodletting technique, see Bloodletting.
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