The difference between skin grafting and non-skin grafting

If the human body is burned or otherwise injured, scars are likely to appear. Once scarring occurs, people need skin grafting surgery. Because of current medical technology, only skin grafting can completely cover scars. However, some people are afraid or for other reasons and dare not use skin grafting surgery. They want to use other methods, but the solution is not particularly thorough. So what are the differences between eating the skin and not eating the skin?

Skin grafting will result in fewer scars. In addition, scars are not prone to unevenness. If skin grafting is not necessary for burns, try not to do it. After skin grafting, there will be melanin and the color will be completely different. Post-care is also very troublesome. The grafted skin has no elasticity at all. It will take many years to slowly recover. If you can avoid skin grafting, try not to do it.

Generally speaking, if a larger area of ​​skin defect cannot be sutured, or if the skin at the edge of the wound cannot heal by growing on its own, skin grafting is needed to solve the problem of wound coverage.

There are many reasons for this large area of ​​skin defect, such as: skin ulcer defect caused by extended excision of a large area of ​​skin tumor, or other skin diseases, skin avulsion and traumatic skin defect, skin defect after excision of burn scar, etc. If the wound cannot be covered with skin tissue and healed as soon as possible, it will affect the quality of life at best, and cause serious infection and systemic imbalance at worst, and may even be life-threatening. Therefore, skin grafting surgery is an effective method for treating large-area skin defects.

In addition to skin grafting, there are other new methods such as flap transfer to solve the problem of skin wounds. However, skin grafting is still one of the most common plastic surgery operations because it has incomparable advantages, such as: high survival rate, low risk; sufficient skin source, even if there is only a little skin, through special medical methods can the application range of this little skin can be expanded by 3 to 11 times, can cover a large area of ​​wounds; low cost of operation; if the skin is taken appropriately and the operation goes smoothly, the patient can also be satisfied with the appearance after the operation.

The disadvantages of skin grafting are: the transplanted skin has a certain degree of shrinkage depending on its thickness; the grafted area is not as good as the surrounding normal skin in color, texture, wear resistance, etc.; the skin sensation in the grafted area is impaired for a long period of time; after most skin grafting operations, the skin in this area will lose the functions of hair growth and sweat secretion, etc.