Dermal Skin Harvesting

Dermal Skin Harvesting

Dermal skin harvesting is a wound care procedure that utilizes healthy skin from your own body in order to stimulate healing in chronic wounds that need support. From diabetic wounds to non-healing wounds, dermal skin harvesting can help promote tissue regeneration, wound closure, and provide solutions for therapy-resistant wounds.

What Is Dermal Skin Harvesting?

During this procedure, healthy skin is harvested, usually from nearby healthy skin, and used in the wound healing process. Skin provides many important structures and cellular components that can promote tissue regeneration and wound healing.

Using tissue from your own body during dermal skin harvesting negates concerns regarding rejection. Learn more about how dermal skin harvesting can help promote wound healing after damage below.

How Does Dermal Skin Harvesting Help Wound Healing?

During times of chronic inflammation, wounds can become stalled in the healing process. Without healthy tissue and inflammatory cells migrating to the wound surface, these wounds are unable to heal.

Dermal skin harvesting can help by:

• Adding healthy tissue to the wound
• Encouraging new tissue regeneration
• Promoting wound closure
• Establishing a healthier wound bed
• Stimulating the body’s natural healing response
• Contributing to long-term wound recovery

If you have been suffering from a chronic wound that just doesn’t seem to want to heal, dermal skin harvesting may be able to help your wound move forward in the healing process.

What Types of Wounds Can Benefit from Dermal Skin Harvesting?

Due to the versatile nature of dermal skin harvesting, it can be used to treat a variety of wounds. Here are some of the most common types of wounds that can benefit from dermal harvesting:

• Diabetic Foot Ulcers
• Venous Leg Ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
• Post-surgical Wounds
• Traumatic Wounds
• Non-healing Wounds
• Complex Wounds With Tissue Loss

Every wound is different and needs to be carefully assessed by a wound care specialist. Schedule an appointment today to find out if your wound can benefit from dermal skin harvesting.

How Is Dermal Skin Harvesting Performed?

Dermal skin harvesting starts with an evaluation of the wound and determination of where to harvest skin. A small piece of healthy skin is harvested from the patient and placed into a sterile container.

The harvested skin is then placed onto the wound bed in order to stimulate healing. Oftentimes adjacent skin is used for this process in order to decrease discomfort.

What Are the Benefits of Dermal Skin Harvesting?

Skin harvesting comes with many benefits that can allow for increased healing of the wound bed.

Here are some of the benefits that come with using dermal skin harvesting as part of your wound care treatment plan:

• Harvests come from the patients own body
• It can promote tissue regeneration
• Promotes wound healing
• Helps with wound bed coverage
• Low chance of tissue rejection
• Can be used alongside many advanced wound care treatments

Every wound is different and will require different forms of treatment. Your doctor will go over treatment plans with you and determine if skin harvesting is right for you.

Is Dermal Skin Harvesting Different from Other Skin Grafting Procedures?

Dermal skin harvesting is similar to other types of skin grafting procedures. However, every patient and wound is different. For this reason, treatment may vary based on the location of the wound and your skin type.

Skin harvesting is just one of many treatment options that are used by our wound care specialists. Our wound specialists will determine what treatment and technology is best used for you and your wounds.

Who May Be a Candidate for Dermal Skin Harvesting?

If you are someone that has a wound or wounds that have not healed properly, you may be a candidate for skin harvesting. Patients that suffer from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, traumatic wounds, and post-surgical wounds may be able to benefit from skin harvesting.

Contact our office today to see if you qualify for skin harvesting. Our physicians will help determine if your wound is able to undergo this procedure.

Why Choose SMC Physicians for Advanced Wound Care?

At SMC Physicians in Northfield, we understand the frustration that comes with having a wound that won’t heal. Not only can chronic wounds be painful, but they can take a huge toll on your quality of life. That is why we work hard to provide every patient that comes into our facility with the highest level of wound care available.

We strive to find what will work for you in order to promote healing and find you relief from your wounds. An evaluation of your wound doesn’t just stop at the wound itself. We look into what could be causing your wound to not heal in order to better find a solution for you.

Trust SMC Physicians for Dermal Skin Harvesting

Skin harvesting is one of the many services we offer here at SMC Physicians. If you are looking for advanced wound care that focuses on the patient, you came to the right place. Request an appointment with us today or give us a call at (609) 377-5150 to see if skin harvesting is right for you.

1601 Tilton Rd, Suite 3, Northfield, NJ 08225

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