Your health care provider will tell you how to change your dressing and care for your wound. You may have an open wound or a closed wound, depending on your injury. Scar tissue will form around these remaining pieces, which may cause ongoing pain or other discomfort. Often these cannot be removed without causing more damage. You may have bullet pieces that remain in your body.
Gunshot wounds that pass through the body without hitting major organs, blood vessels, or bone tend to cause less damage. Find and remove pieces of broken or shattered bone.If the wound was severe, you may have had surgery to:
