Thanks for the link, it was very interesting. It seems that the use of colloidal silver dressings is recommended only for nontrivial wounds and burns, because there’s a tradeoff with cytotoxicity and cellular regrowth rates. It doesn’t stop regrowth, it just slows it. So where its antibactierial and sterilizing effects are most critical, like severe burns or wounds, the recovery rate tradeoff is worth it. Especially with bad burns, infections are the number one problem and killers. But with fairly trivial burns and wounds, it’s not recommended in favor of having the wound heal as fast as possible. Again, thanks for the link.
Actually, the way I read it, the problem with silver is only when the fibroblasts are laying down the early matrix, so using silver when it’s not a deep cut or burn should be perfectly fine.