Skin Grafting

Skin grafting is done in a surgical procedure. The procedure consists of:

• the removal of injured tissue
• selection of a donor site, or an area from which healthy skin is removed to be used as cover for the cleaned burned area
• harvesting, where the graft is removed from donor site
• placing and securing the skin graft over the surgically cleaned wound so it can heal

To help the graft heal and become secure, the area of the graft is not moved for five days following each surgery. During this immobilization period, blood vessels begin to grow from the tissue below into the donor skin, bonding the two layers together. Five days after grafting, exercise therapy programs, tub baths and other normal daily activities resume.