Plugging the Gap Flashcards
1
Q
What is secondary intention?
A
Normal healing
2
Q
What is the least invasive way of healing?
A
Secondary intention
3
Q
Which of primary closure and secondary intention has less scarring?
A
Primary closure
4
Q
How does tissue expansion work?
A
Baroreceptors in skin detect stretch and grow so can take a graft from this
5
Q
What is mesh used to do?
A
Help anchor a graft
6
Q
Why can you take a larger graft for split thickness?
A
As a thinner layer
7
Q
How does split thickness heal?
A
By secondary intention
