2 New Burn-Treatment Technologies That May Soon Become Great Alternatives to Skin Grafts
Among the many types of skin injuries, full-thickness second-degree burns and third-degree burns have always been the most difficult to treat. Unlike first-degree and superficial second-degree burns, deeper second-degree and third-degree burns, especially on large areas of the body, typically cannot heal on their own. Burns are classified as third degree when all layers of skin are destroyed, and once all layers are gone, the only option for many years has been to harvest skin from another area of the body and graft it onto the burned area.