Basics about Skin Grafting
What is Skin Grafting?
Skin Grafting is a very popular aesthetic procedure that is used in order to correct aesthetic flaws in one’s appearance. The procedure involves skin being surgically moved from one place of the body to another place. The place from where the skin is surgically lifted is called the donor site while the place where the skin is transplanted is known as recipient donor.
Donor site is usually any body part which is hidden behind the clothes. The areas like buttock, inner thighs etc. prove to be ideal donor sites as these are protected areas of the body. The colour match and the skin visibility are the two factors that are considered while the donor site is chosen. The graft spread onto the area is covered and held at one place with the help of a well-padded dressing as sometimes by small stitches. The donor site becomes raw after the graft and is covered with the help up of sterile dressing for about two weeks to be keep it protected from any kind of infection.
What really happens once the procedure is complete?
As the skin graft is complete and is put in place, the area has to be maintained properly. Grafts on legs have to maintained by being on bed for a week to ten days without putting any kind of pressure on the legs. The legs have to be kept in an elevated position. Grafts on other body areas have similar special taking care requirements that have to be kept in mind to keep in track the contracture of the area in question! It is advisable to have a very good surgeon helping and advising throughout, even as you are going through follow-ups for your skin graft to make sure that the surgery is successful. Therefore, trust Max Institute of Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery to avail world class treatment and after surgery care!
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