Ouch that looks a bit sore. What insects are you feeding as they could have bitten him? Looks more than just a bit of scale damage due to a bad shed.

 

My bearded dragon has recently shed and it looks like he has a damaged/missing scale?
No one messed about with him whilst he was shedding so it couldn't be that. I do have other pets (cats and dogs) but whenever he is out of his enclosure I have been with him so the other pets wouldn't have a chance to damage him in anyway.
I was wondering if there is anything that I could buy to help treat this or what I should do about it. Thanks

Hi, not easy to see, but it looks like the scale has gone, just gently dab the area with a diluted iodine solution; 10 (ten) parts water to 1 (one) part iodine, do that once per day for the next week (do not rinse off). If after that time the skin underneath looks clean it should heal without further treatment (the scale will not grow back but that`s purely cosmetic).

 

He eats crickets, locusts and morio worms, he is brumantating at the moment so I have something for him to climb under and in the morning there was a cricket in their with him, it could be that?
Is there anything I can buy to help it heal? Thanks

 

Thats why Murrindindi has said about using an iodine solution, it will clean the wound and doing it over a week will help prevent (or clean up) any infection.

Beardies are slow healers, so once you have made sure its clean and healthy tissue its just a case of keeping an eye and let nature take its course.

Some people talk about using honey on the wound to help promote healing but i would do the iodine solution for a week and then if you want to try a "holistic" sort of approach then look at the honey idea.
However, i dont really think its a great idea is you are then putting live insects in for the beardie to eat.

 

UPDATE:
From what I know it looks like it has healed
I used iodine on the scale until it looked clean then he shed where it used to be and other than it being a bit raised it looks like it was never there
Wanted to make sure it had healed properly so here are some pics

 

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Welcome to RFUK dallasstorm42.
As LiasisUK has said - old thread. It was originally posted in January 2016 so very definitely an appropriate time for brumation rather than breeding in the UK. Many beardies in the UK will brumate - successfully - regardless of any efforts to try to prevent them. Perhaps it is different in Dallas where the ambient temperatures are higher.
IMO there is nothing wrong with using crickets as a feeder (especially if a small amount of veg is left in the enclosure for the crickets to snack on), locust also make very good feeders but I think they are perhaps restricted in the USA? Superworms (I'm assuming you mean Morio worms) are only really suitable as occasional feeders as their nutritional value is not particularly good.

 

Yeh, have to agree with Jools; basically all the advice given is incorrect.