Also, it increases the rate of healing by stimulation of angiogenesis, granulation, and epithelialization,
making skin grafting unnecessary and giving excellent cosmetic results.
Not exact matches
A woman who punished a 9 year old boy by
making him sit in a bathtub while she poured boiling water on him, to the point where he will require physical therapy and
skin grafts and a host of reconstructive surgery, also
making the boy clean the kitchen after she burned him.
It
makes a good scaffold for
skin grafts or engineered tissue.
A biodegradable polyester created by bacterial fermentation, PHA can be used to
make things such as
skin grafts and valve replacements, which would come in handy up in space.
The
skin substitute is also being used to
make customized
grafts for burn victims and for children who can't handle exposure to UV light without risking cancer.
When a
graft covered in the microneedles is inserted into the
skin and
makes contact with the water in natural tissues, the polyacrylic acid in the tips swells up, providing that mechanical lock with minimal pain and risk of infection.
Though burn injuries can be treated, they often leave permanent scarring and may require costly
skin grafts to
make the
skin appear as normal as possible.