Tissue-Engineered Skin Substitutes

Background: Skin substitutes are frequently used by plastic surgeons today to treat a wide variety of cutaneous defects. They provide methods to heal wounds while minimizing donor sites. They are commonly used in burns, acute wounds, and chronic wounds. Methods: The authors reviewed the literature on both the development of skin substitutes and their use today. The authors focused their work on what are currently the more commonly used types of...