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🪒 Why They Shave the Area Before Surgery
Hair is a contamination risk in an otherwise sterile field.
Preventing Infection In The Surgical Field
- Your skin naturally carries bacteria on its surface and around hair follicles.
- During an operation, surgeons create a **surgical site** or an incision through your skin.
- Removing hair ensures that no stray strands or bacteria trapped in that hair fall into the wound.
- This keeps the environment as clean as possible.
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