Results—In the wet environment, not only did inverted meshed skin grafts survive, but also they proliferated to accelerate reepithelialization. In this environment, wounds transplanted with inverted and regular meshed grafts showed no significant difference in reepithelialization rate and contraction.
In contrast, in the dry environment, wounds transplanted with inverted meshed grafts showed a significantly lower reepithelialization and higher contraction than wounds transplanted with regular grafts. Inverted meshed grafts in dry environment and inverted sheet grafts did not survive.