[Willem Fick]

I had 72 staples across my hairline following some pretty invasive surgery years ago. Other than that stitches and later sutures only. The only downside to the staples AFAIC is that some of them sort-of got stuck, and it was quite painful to pull those out. I wore baseball caps for some time to hide the wounds post-op, as they looked rather grisly, and can say they never one caught on anything, nor did they cause pinching of any sort.

Funny story about the baseball caps as an aside;

I was at university at the time and one of my lecturers took exception to me wearing a cap in his class. He ordered me to take it off, but as soon as he was confronted by the nastiness it was hiding he apologized profusely and had me put it right back on.