What is regenerative medicine and how can it promote wound healing?

  When traditional treatments fail to heal wounds, many doctors look to modern alternatives to help patients recover. Regenerative medicine is one of the most recent developments to become a worthy treatment alternative. Here’s an overview of regenerative medicine and its role in wound care: What is regenerative medicine? The National Institutes of Health defines regenerative medicine as the process of creating living, functional tissues to repair or replace lost tissue or organ function. Through regeneration, replacement and rejuvenation, regenerative-medicine techniques work with the body’s natural wound-healing processes to promote recovery. Regenerative medicine allows doctors to repair and restore damaged or nonfunctioning tissue cells. What can regenerative medicine do for wound healing? When wounds damage tissues, regenerative medicine can replace the damaged cells or restore them to proper health. This promotes wound healing in various cases, including: Chronic wound treatment As many as one-third of chronic wounds fail to heal with traditional treatment methods, according to Wound Educators. Regenerative medicine can be an effective treatment alternative for non-healing wounds. Skin transplants Doctors can send patient skin cells to a laboratory, where they are reprogrammed to have characteristics that promote healing. Such tissue-engineered products can induce new, healthy tissue growth. The re-engineered skin cells are sent back to the patien...
Source: Advanced Tissue - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Wound Care Wound healing Source Type: news