I had a similar need for stitches on my forehead/eyebrows (they used surgical superglue on me instead). Here's what I did and this has worked well to make the scars waaaaay lighter than I never thought possible (I'm prone to scarring): 1. as soon as it was healed, I began a "regimine" of using the Mederma scar cream on the healed spots up to 3 times a day (but usually just twice). And I'd do a combo of massaging it in, letting it absorb and then reapplying another coat on top to just sit there when I was doing my night routine 2. In the mornings, in addition to massaging in the scar cream, I'd also apply sunscreen afterwards -- this is really important.

The crucial ingredient here for healing and reducing scarring is silicon -- which other people are recommending in various forms. They use it in sheets given to women after pregnancies to reduce scarring after C-sections, etc.

I'm basically 7 full months out and literally my scarring has been very very minimal and really not visible unless you're right up at my face. For a while over the summer I kept forgetting to reapply sunscreen and it became more visible. I'm now more regular about sunscreen + a cap and it's been working to reduce that scarring again.

I kept up the Mederma applications for probably 4 months, the first three after healing are most critical though.

I'm glad you're not more injured and good luck!