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I have skin grafts on ~30% of my body and donor sites on another large fraction (although not on the face). I’d be pretty excited about skin grafts that actuall
by strstr 7y ago
I have skin grafts on ~30% of my body and donor sites on another large fraction (although not on the face). I’d be pretty excited about skin grafts that actually looked decent.
It’s tricky though, since there is an uncanny valley: if it doesn’t look natural, it might just look inexplicably weird (think mismatched hair). I’ve felt this way about some of the more modern techniques for large full thickness grafts I’ve seen photos of. Partial thickness grafts have the advantage of being unambiguous (but obviously unnatural looking).
Even if it would be possible to “fix” my issues with whatever we develop in the next n years, it definitely won’t be worth redoing it. I wouldn’t wish skin grafts on my worst enemy. Fortunately, I was young enough not to remember the first time around.