Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Skin Grafting and Its Types:

According to Merriam-Webster, Skin Grafting is defined as A piece of skin that is surgically removed from a donor area to replace skin in a defective or denuded area (as one that has been burned).”
Removal ad transplantation of healthy skin from one area of the body to another is known as skin grafting. This procedure is used when the skin is damaged badly; this is a probable treatment of renewing the skin.
Layer skin graft and full thickness skin graft are two types of skin grafting. The first one takes a thin layer away from a healthy part of the human body. Whereas the second type f skin grafting is more risky as it totally depends upon the conditions of the skin.
There are various risk factors involved in skin grafting surgery. Some of them include nerve damage, bleeding, infection, loss of grafted skin etc.
Usually these surgeries are successful, but it’s not guaranteed that the patients would fully recover, which increases the chances of re-grafting of the skin. Regular monitoring of the skin graft for good circulation is of the utmost importance in such cases.
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