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TIRBO #18: Mastering dilation

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Skin Nicks - What You Need to Know

The whole reason you may need to nick the skin with ta scalpel is to start your dilation. You're just starting a incision, a cut, and then that cut is going to be torn or widened by the dilator. And really, my gol for skin nick is usually literally as small as possible,. The smallest skin nick, which is still a skin nick. Once you have started to nick it, you're done. I do this by i fully extend the scalpo blade. Know some people like to only partially extend it, but then it kind of changes the shape of it. It's usually a little obscured by blood, usually kind of blot at first. But n

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