Fingerprint regeneration
Forensics expert Edward Richards, director of the Program in Law, Science and Public Health at Louisiana State University, explains that "other diseases, rashes and the others similar can cause the breakdown of the skin on your fingers. Just a good case of poison ivy would do it." But, he notes, "Left alone, your skin replaces at a fairly good rate, so unless you've done permanent damage to the tissue, it will regenerate."
Regeneration restrictions
There are sometimes when the skin tissue is too heavily damaged, the skin around the fingerprints are not able to be regenerated. If the cut or burn damage's only the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) than the skin cells are able to divide and clean out the germs that are inside the wound. If the damage to the skin gets past the underneath layer (dermis), the the body is not able to heal itself without assistance from medicine, surgery, or stitches. And sometimes the damage attained to the individual fingerprint is just too great for the body to handle. If you sustain a third degree burn on your fingerprints, they will not fully be able to regrow back.
If you burn off your fingerprints, will they grow back the same?
There is also the important question that still remains. If you lightly damage the skin tissue around your fingerprints, enough so that they will grow back, will they grow back the same? The answer is yes. Each person's fingerprints are genetically unique.
No two people can have the same fingerprint's, because no two people have the same genetic structure.
The reason that your fingerprints regrow back the same as before is because fingerprints are based of your DNA. And also because each person has their own specific DNA structure which cannot be lost, there is no way that you could naturally grow someone else's fingerprints on to yours. It's just not possible, yet. But hopefully it will be in the future.
No two people can have the same fingerprint's, because no two people have the same genetic structure.
The reason that your fingerprints regrow back the same as before is because fingerprints are based of your DNA. And also because each person has their own specific DNA structure which cannot be lost, there is no way that you could naturally grow someone else's fingerprints on to yours. It's just not possible, yet. But hopefully it will be in the future.
When would fingerprint regeneration ever be needed or used?
With the new discovery that fingerprints are able also able to regenerate, just like the skin tissue around it, It could be possible use this new highly detailed regeneration for more scientific purposes. The fact that one of the most highly detailed formations on our body is able to be regenerated the same way that regular skill heals itself is just incredible. This new technology could eventually be used to regenerate organs that are missing in some people along with other medical transactions.