When congenital syndactyly is done with split-finger surgery, in most cases there is a lack of skin volume and rarely a direct suture is possible. If the lack of skin is not well resolved, it will certainly affect the overall outcome of the surgery. One of the key aspects of the various methods of juxtaposed finger splitting surgery is how to avoid skin grafting. However, if the skin defect is too large and excessive, skin implants are still needed.
The donor area for the implant is usually chosen on the child’s tummy because the skin in this area will be softer and more resilient, which is more suitable. However, it will also leave a new scar on the tummy, which will affect the aesthetics. If the child is scarred, this situation is still more serious, especially for girls, future dressing will inevitably be restricted. Many parents feel that this is too cruel, can not bear to let the child suffer, want to take skin from their own body children with.
That parents’ skin for the child is really desirable? Actually, no, only skin can be taken from the child’s own body and implanted. Moreover, it is not necessary to do so now.
Nowadays, we do not use skin implants for finger merging surgery, but use artificial dermis induced skin implant-free technology, in which the artificial dermis material is applied to the wounded area to induce the skin to grow on its own, without the need to take skin from other parts of the body, which greatly reduces the surgical trauma. The new skin induced by artificial dermis will resemble the original one, and there will be no hyperpigmentation or loss of sensory function, and the overall effect is significantly better than that of implants.