Can A New Biologic Matrix Facilitate Improved Wound Healing?
The field of advanced wound care science continues to deliver new products and concepts for use in healing problem wounds of the lower extremity. The market now includes two living cell products and numerous biologically active products that are the result of bioengineering research and development. The real advantage of these new technologies is that we can now actively stimulate healing whereas most of the prior advances in wound care simply helped to optimize the wound environment. This ability to interact with the wound base and stimulate the production of local healing is a major advance in science and has already helped countless patients heal their lower extremity wounds. These advanced wound healing techniques attempt to reduce scarring and therefore yield a full thickness and durable wound covering that can better withstand weightbearing and the pressure of shoe gear. Artificial skin substitutes have become popular because they act as a model for the synthesis of true dermis o
