Split-thickness skin grafts transplanted over exposed maxillary bone in dogs.
Studies in five dogs showed that skin grafts over decorticated bone became viable after two weeks; skin grafts over nondecorticated bone were necrotic and sloughed. After eight weeks, the grafts on the decoritcated areas were well vascularized; peripheral epithelial migration had almost completely closed the defects in the nondecorticated sites.
D000818:Animals; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D004285:Dogs; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery; D012867:Skin / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014727:Vestibuloplasty