ABSTRACT
Conventional dressings, such as gauze, impregnated gauze, gauze and cotton, packing strips have been in use for over fifty years. Moist wound environment that these dressings provide are best for wound regeneration and repair and increasing the velocity of healing. Effective wound management aims to strike a balance, i.e. a moist environment to promote healing, but not so wet as to cause maceration and excoriation.
