Xpansion Micrografting

Dr. George Williams Announces a New Skin Grafting Technology - Xpansion Micrografting

Dr. George Williams of Ankle and Foot Center of Tampa Bay ( 38105 13th Ave in Zephyrhills, 813-715-4747) is specially trained in Xpansion Micrografting, a new grafting technique just introduced this year. Dr. Williams was the first physician in Florida to use this innovative technique to heal difficult wounds.

A brief history of the progression of grafting technology: Split thickness skin grafts are a standard reconstructive technique frequently used in patients for burns, acute wounds following surgery or trauma and chronic wounds that fail to heal with nonsurgical management. Split thickness skin grafts are considered the gold standard.

For many wounds, limited donor skin can limit skin graft availability and coverage. Intraoperative meshed expansion of split thickness skin grafts is limited to a maximum nine times and usually no more than six times.
Minced skin technology addresses the existing limitations of skin grafting. First introduced in 1958, meshing of skin grafts was limited to expansion of 9 times.

In 2002, a technique was described where it was not necessary to orient the minced skin pieces in any specific direction. This technology has been simplified and now the intraoperative expansion of 100 times is possible with complete healing of full thickness wounds using the Xpansion Micrografting System from Wright Medical.