ABSTRACT
Cutaneous wound healing involves dermal and epidermal repair. Both processes are concurrent, and the distinction is meant only to understand them more clearly. Epidermal wound healing is discussed mainly in the section on reepithelialization. Again, dermal wound healing has been temporally divided into different phases for the purpose of under standing (10,11). We can divide the wound healing process into hemostasis, inflammatory, granulation or proliferation, and tissue remodeling phases (Fig. 1). The distinction between these phases is only conceptual and they overlap in time.
