How large of a skin removal can heal on its own? (Possibly NSFW, and Yuck warning)

Is yuck a technical term or a Canadian figure of speech? I have never heard it used in a medical sense.

A pretty large area of skin can heal on its own if kept clean and with antibiotic cream. I had a bad crash on a bicycle once and got a 5 inch by 5 inch patch of road rash. It was all better in about ten days.

Bigger sections of skin have been used as a “flap” in plastic surgery. folding a section of skin from one area over the spot where a cancer was removed.

@zenvelo yuck is just a layman’s figure of speech for gross.

I lost about 80% of the skin on my right leg about six years ago – bad infection and such – lost the skin all the way from my toes up almost to the knee.

It all grew back. Parts are a little discolored (new skin doesn’t have the same pigment as old skin) but so what…

It took a while, it had to be cleaned and wrapped regularly, and they put silver ointment on it to promote healing. But it’s all there.

Keeping it clean is the key.

I’ve had a 3 inch by 5 inch road rash. Bandaged but no doctor.

I had a 4” x 6” piece taken from my butt cheek for a skin graft. Woke up under a heat lamp and mygawd did it hurt! Had to lay on my side under a hoop which held the sheet off of it for 10 days, no getting up at all and no positional changes. Luckily I was on good pain meds so I didn’t care.

If it isn’t a deep wound large patches will heal back. Think of all of those skinned knees that kids get.

If the person is diabetic a foot wound can take months to heal or not heal.

Fairly large. Some people in the old west survived being scalped. (Not that any Indian took the entire scalp…)