Skin grafts in the periocular region without a bolstered dressing

摘要

In their article entitled skin grafts in the periocular region without a bolstered dressing,1 the authors claim that this is the first literature report doing away altogether with using tie-over bolsters. A more accurate rephrasing would be that this is the first report in the literature where a bolster was not applied when perimeter sutures alone were used, because in 2004 Thomas Naugle and associates immobilized eyelid skin grafts with direct graft-to-bed quilting sutures alone and without the use of a sutured dressing in some of their patients.I find the encouraging results of the authors with grafts up to 3 cm interesting but rather antithetical