Yes. Burn contractures limit movement, plain and simple. Healing skin tightens, pulls across a joint, and stops doing what normal skin does: stretch. Left alone, that joint can freeze in place. Mild cases need therapy and splinting. Bad ones need …
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Yes. Skin grafting closes burn wounds that will not close on their own. First skin grafting removes tissue. Then skin grafting places skin from another part of the body. Not every burn requires skin grafting. Shallow burns heal themselves; no …
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Yes, plastic surgery can restore both form and function after major tissue loss, whether the cause is trauma, cancer surgery, or a severe burn. Reconstruction usually isn’t a single operation. It begins with wound stabilisation and closure, then moves toward …
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A skin graft has no blood supply of its own. None. It only survives once it latches onto the wound bed underneath. A flap’s different, it brings its own vessels along, alive from the second it moves. That’s the whole …
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Skin grafting closes large wounds by covering them with healthy tissue taken from another part of the body. That is the version. The wound must be clean first with no tissue, no infection and a blood supply underneath ready to …
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Flap surgery moves healthy living tissue, along with its own blood supply, from one part of the body to another to rebuild a defect. It’s needed when a wound is too deep, too exposed or too poorly supplied with blood …
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Yes, reconstructive surgery after a burn follows a structured plan, and it’s built around how deep the burn went and which body part got hit. Surgeons stabilise the wound first, then move to grafting or flap work once the tissue …
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Yes, in most cases, well-controlled diabetes doesn’t rule out plastic surgery. The real concern is blood sugar, because high glucose slows healing and raises the chance of infection. Surgeons usually ask for recent glucose readings and medical clearance before agreeing …
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A hair transplant is a permanent, one-time investment that uses the patient’s own follicles to restore natural growth, while a wig is a lower upfront cost that requires ongoing replacement, maintenance, and care. The transplant costs more initially but does …
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A surgical nose job, or rhinoplasty, permanently reshapes the nose by altering bone and cartilage, while a non-surgical nose job uses dermal fillers to add volume and smooth contours temporarily without any surgery. The key difference is that surgery can …
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