Hades ripped the scar open a little on his mouth. There was some blood on the care fresh. I've been putting ointment on it and it's healing up really fast. Do snakes scale grow back? I'm asking this because he had two scales missing off his lip when I caught him. (I counted his scales on both sides, and only two were missing on the injured side) And now, it's mostly healed with one scale missing, and what looks to be a new lip scale. It's white, shaped like the lip scales and doesn't rub off when ointment is put on his lip with a qtip.