Skin Grafting is a surgical procedure by which skin substitute is placed over a burn or Non healing
wound to permanently replace damaged or missing skin to provide a temporary wound covering.
Skin grafts serve a critical function in the healing process for a variety of different injuries to the skin to help the present infection and further progression of the wound.

These are the potential sources of a Skin Graft. Grafting skin can be obtained from another area of the patients body, The Skin which can be obtained from a donor (i.e. another person or...) which is known as Auto graft. The type of severity of the skin damage incurred by a patient can require a distinct Skin Graft depending on the injury and the damage to the patients skin either a split- thickness Skin Graft (only involves the epidermis and this portion of the dermis ) may be used.