• Question: How fast is the recovery process?

    Asked by ceara to Sean on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 14 Mar 2012:


      If you mean recover after we print new skin onto a patient, if a normal wound takes about 8 weeks to heal completely (usually leaving a large scar), our treatment reduces this time to 2 weeks, and does not leave a scar. This is only in experiments at the moment so we do not know exactly how quick recovery will be once we start using the printer in the hospital.

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