Tag Archive for: Skin Grafts

A New Skin Game

Not so much an invention but a product with possibility of  real benefits to healing.  Imagine if we had skin banks like we do blood banks, you could donate skin grafts and in the event of injury you had a ready supply of your own skin to help in recovery.

Products by two Hampton Roads organizations are on the cutting edge of wound care.

The nonprofit LifeNet Health in Virginia Beach offers TheraSkin, a graft made of real skin that stimulates your body to heal itself. Soluble Systems of Newport News sells TheraGauze, a covering that regulates the moisture within a wound.
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