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Vacuum Assisted Closure device. A sealed suction dressing that encourages healing.

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What is skin engineering and skin grafting?

Skin Engineering's when you engineer skin & skin grafting is when you graft skin. How to Graft SkinFirst place a grater on your arm.Second start grafting.(grafting is when you shred your arm very hard.)Third take grater off.Fourth take off all of your skin that was peeled & put it in a bowl & feed to the homeless.


Wound vac inventor?

Dr. Louis Argenta M.D.


Who invented wound VAC?

Lou Argenta invennted the VAC with Mike Morykwas at Wake Forest. The VAC is regarded as the greatest breakthrough in wound treatment in the past 30 years. Over 5 million people have been treated with the VAC. They have been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery


What is the medical term for surgical instrument used to cut the skin for grafting?

What is the surgical instrument used to cut the skin for grafting


Are skin grafts expensive?

doctor told me skin grafting is very expensive why


What is treatment for pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia?

excision then skin grafting


What is the purpose of bone grafting?

Bone grafting is used to repair bone fractures that are extremely complex, pose a significant risk to the patient, or fail to heal properly. Bone graft is also used to help fusion between vertebrae.


How long is recovery after skin grafting?

My doctor is concedering a skin graft to may foot for a wound that wont seem to close or heal. He will take it off of me. As it is closing, it pulls up my toe. I was wondering if it will require a hospital stay and how long? Thank you Yolanda Diemer


What is the way skin grafting works?

Skin for grafting can be obtained from another area of the patient's body, called an autograft, if there is enough undamaged skin available, and if the patient is healthy enough to undergo the additional surgery required.


What are the different kinds of grafting?

the different types of grafting are split skin grafts, full thikness grafts,cleft grafting,bark grafting,and whip and tongue graft ,answered by the agri bussiness students in siquijor state college


When was skin grafting first done?

it is first done in 1943.


What are skin grafts?

Transportation of the skin.Skin grafting is often used to treat:Extensive wounding or traumaBurnsAreas of extensive skin loss due to infectionSpecific surgeries that may require skin grafts for healing to occur