When doing skin grafts, how are the nerves connected from the donor skin to the body, and are blood vessels done using the same technique?
In: Biology
A lot of the fine work in surgery is handled by the body’s natural healing ability. The body is designed to handle smaller cuts where the ends might not align perfectly again. Blood vessels will find blood vessels on the other end and grow together and similar with nerves. They will not be connected the same way they were before but at least they are connected. With blood vessels it does not matter that much what is connected to where as long as it is connected. But they will have to change over time to balance the blood flow. The nerves do matter where they are connected so at first none of the nerves will work. However nerves have the ability to remap themselves when they learn where the different nerves go and what they do. So after some time your brain will start learning which nerves are associated with pain or touch or move tiny muscles, etc. and you will start to regain control over the area.
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