Do Band-Aids really heal cuts twice as fast?

Everyone wants wounds to heal quickly, whether it’s a paper cut or a grazed knee. So it’s easy to be swayed by marketing claims on packs of adhesive bandages, and on signs in your local pharmacy, that promise faster healing.

Band-Aid’s pack of 50 plastic adhesive bandages, for instance, displays the claim the product:

"Heals cuts twice as fast."

And Band-Aid’s pack of ten so-called “Advanced