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If you burn or cut your fingertips, does the skin grow back with the same fingerprint?

I saw a movie where the bad guy burned his fingerprints off but when I accidentally burnt my own fingertips the print seemed to grow back the same.
gpt
Depends on the extent of the damage - more specifically, if your injury is severe enough to disrupt the basal layer of your epidermis, your fingerprint would be affected. The friction ridges that define your fingerprint also exist in the junction between your dermis and your epidermis (as dermal papillae), and if your injury goes _that_ deep, it's possible to alter your print.

This is also what allows some prints to be taken from a cadaver, even if the epidermis is damaged. You just peel the skin off like a glove, and both the underside of the epidermis and the dermis will contain the ridge structures.