Can a person change or remove their fingerprints

You can scar your fingerprints with a cut, or temporarily lose them through abrasion, acid or certain skin conditions, but fingerprints lost in this way will grow back within a month.

It can be more difficult to capture our fingerprints as we age, this is because the skin loses elasticity with age, and the patterns become less prominent due to the thickening of ridges and furrows.