Patient Education
Flap & Graft Reconstruction Guide
Honest, evidence-based guides to skin grafts, local and free flaps, tissue expansion and scar contracture release. Each explains the problem, who the procedure suits, how the options compare, the donor-site scars and recovery involved, and the risks worth knowing.
All Guides
11 reconstruction guides
- The Reconstructive Ladder: From Direct Closure to Free Tissue TransferReconstructive Principles
- Skin Grafts: Split-Thickness and Full-ThicknessSkin Grafting
- Graft Donor Sites: Where Skin Is Taken and How It HealsDonor Sites
- Local Flaps: Advancement, Rotation and TranspositionLocal Flaps
- Regional and Free Flaps: Moving Tissue With Its Own Blood SupplyFree Tissue Transfer
- Monitoring a Flap: Colour, Temperature and Warning SignsFlap Monitoring
- Scar Contracture: Why Scars Tighten and How Release Restores MovementScar Contracture
- Tissue Expansion: Growing Extra Skin Next to a DefectTissue Expansion
- Reconstructing Facial Soft-Tissue DefectsFacial Reconstruction
- Reconstructing Scalp Defects: Why the Scalp Is DifficultScalp Reconstruction
- When Reconstruction Fails: Salvage and Honest LimitsSalvage and Revision
Ready to discuss reconstruction of a defect?
Reach out for a consultation. We will assess the wound or defect, explain the graft, flap and expansion options honestly, and plan reconstruction stage by stage with you.