Skin grafting is a surgical procedure that involves removing healthy skin from one area of the body and moving it to a damaged part of the patient’s body that has lost its protective covering of skin due to burns, injury, or illness. The skin graft may be a thin or thick layer of skin depending on where this has been taken from and what area the graft needs to cover.

Large or non-healing damage to the skin exposes the body to infection and subsequent injury, and failing to treat the wound can have devastating consequences – which is why skin grafting is necessary to achieve healing in a timely manner.