Grafts
Cosmetic Surgery - Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic Medicine - Reconstructive Surgery
In surgery, a graft is a fragment of tissue or organ, whatever its size
that is transplanted when grafting takes place. Grafting is a surgical
procedure that involves transferring an organ or tissue taken from the
patient himself or from a donor to a receiving patient.
In plastic surgery, surgery to the skin and surgery to soft tissue,
grafts can be used, for example, to repair a loss of tissue after
removal of a tumour. The graft will be either a thin skin (split
thickness) graft or a full skin (full thickness) graft, according to
the case.
In surgery for baldness we use micrografts that allow the size of the
operation and residual scarring to be reduced. A small strip of scalp
is removed and then cut into fragments of one to three hairs
(micrografts) or four to eight hair (minigrafts) to be implanted in the
treated area. These small fragments are also called grafts.
In these cases, the graft comes from the same person. This is an auto graft and is generally well accepted by the body.