#skin replacement

[industryupdate]

How Do Skin Replacement and Substitutes Treat Skin Conditions?

Skin substitutes are made of synthetics, biosynthetic, and biologic materials, which may cover skin wounds permanently or temporarily. Similarly, skin replacements are designed to mimic the qualities of the natural skin. Skin replacement and substitution are a kind of surgery that provides a healthier look by replacing damaged or missing skin. The replaced skin develops blood vessels and connects to the skin around it within a few days.

Such treatments are in high demand, with skin burns becoming more common, awareness among consumers about their beauty surging, and cases of skin disorders increasing. Thus, the skin replacement and substitutes market is expected to achieve significant growth in the coming years. As per the AAD, medical, preventive, and prescription & non-prescription medicine expenditures for skin diseases cost the U.S. healthcare system around $75 billion every year.

Synthetic Skin Substitutes: What Are They?

Synthetic skin substitutes are made from polymers and non-biological chemicals that are not found in the natural skin. These structures should be biodegradable, stable, and create an environment conducive to tissue regeneration. It should keep its three-dimensional shape for at least three weeks, to allow blood vessels, fibroblasts, and epithelial cells to grow. If there is a significant body reaction, this procedure should be avoided since it will exacerbate the inflammatory response, perhaps leading to serious scarring. To avoid immunoreactive processes, it should be made of immune-compatible materials.

End Users of Skin Replacement and Substitutes

• Wound Care Clinics and Hospitals

Wound care clinics and hospitals offer care to patients with non-healing wounds. These places are well-organized outpatient facilities that use up-to-date treatments and procedures to help patients recover faster. According to the WHO, burns are responsible for an estimated 180,000 deaths per year, the vast majority of which occur in low- and middle-income nations.

• Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

Cosmetics and personal care items are used to clean, beautify, promote attractiveness, and change the appearance of the human body. Now, people are adopting skin replacement and substitutes to enhance beauty and appearance.

• Two Types of Skin Substitutes: Cellular and Acellular

Skin substitutes comprise a wide range of human and animal-derived cellular and acellular components designed to encourage the host to repair damaged tissue or it with functional skin. Cellular treatments, also known as bioengineered cellular therapies, use skin cells to produce cytokines and enzymes, to help the body regenerate the tissues.

The extracellular matrix for tissue growth can be made from both natural and artificial materials, such as polyglactin and collagen. Acellular products offer a non-cellular extracellular matrix, made up of a fiber substrate or other substances, into which cells can move and commence tissue regeneration.

Skin Replacement and Substitutes for Burned Skin

In the U.S., 1.25 million burn injuries need medical treatment each year, and burn-related illnesses or conditions kill 10,000 people per year, as per the National Caregivers Library. The good news is that survival rates for major burns have improved considerably in recent years. Burns that covered half the body, for example, were usually harmful. Patients with 90% body surface burns can now survive, however with long-term disability. As a result, replacing skin lost to serious burns is a critical aspect of burn patient treatment. When patients lose 80–90% of their skin due to direct contact with scorching hot liquids, fires, chemicals, electrical current, or radiation, two significant tasks must be accomplished. Firstly, a burn surgeon must get rid of the burned skin, and then, the unprotected underlying tissue must be covered quickly.

Advantages of Skin Replacement and Substitutes

The following are some of the benefits of adopting skin replacement and substitutes:

• They can be used in various situations where there is not enough skin available, such as in severe burns. • They keep away further wounds from forming, just like skin replacement. • They give interim wound protection until skin replacement may be performed. • Synthetic skin replacements are possible on large areas onf the body. • Skin replacement can be used to repair damaged skin and restore function. • This operation is excellent for skin loss caused by a variety of conditions.

Thus, skin substitutes and replacements are in high demand because of the increase in burn cases and injuries and higher awareness of people toward maintaining a beautiful body.

[theoldkyokodied]

normal guys in a normal relationship (giving you a not very convincing thumbs up). macdennis doodles from this week :)

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[bunnieswithknives]

I'm never getting out of here.

Plus a version without the background cause I like them on their own too

[saturnsorbits]

There’s a crack in the right hand side of your desk from all those times Kirishima has accidentally hardened his hand against the wood after getting a clear shot at your tits down your shirt…

[xxsomethingsimfulxx]

How now, sprout cow? 200 Followers gift!

I know it's not a big number to some, but wow! 200 followers! Thank you all so much! To celebrate I have some party favors! I even learned some new tricks while working on all of this!

Post is image heavy!

What have we got?

Cowplant skins! The black and white boy's skin(His name is Chucky) comes as custom AND default!

Might I recommend No default plantsim hair and No plantsim skin/eyes? Edit: I forgot to recommend the Mirror of Discernment. It allows you to designate sims as aliens :D

More "natural" cowplant sim skins! The dark green also comes as a default!

Alien cow skins! As custom and default skins! Also an alien eyes default!

General Zoi's cow ear and tail recolors, plus Diekatze's Namekian antenna recolors! The antenna have also been made showerproof!

Disclaimer: Cow tails and ears flash blue, tried to fix it. Couldn't, but they work fine otherwise and it goes away after a change appearance as usual.

Cow tails also don't work for children. It was made that way, probably by accident. The frame is lacking the cow tail, and I don't know how to fix it as meshing is not my forte, at all, in the slightest.

Make up! Yes, for babies too! There's several nose blushes, lipstick, a 3rd eye, and matching 3rd eyelids for both alien skins. I've also made alien contacts for babies and adults!

YOU NEED THE SIMBLENDER TO MAKE BABY MAKEUP WORK

Everything is tool tipped, named clearly, practical preview pics included, meshes included, foldered by type, and compressed. Remember to only pick ONE default!

DOWNLOAD

Credits:

at35z Juno Birch Cow Skin

@simmer-until-tender for Sonny's lipstick(y'all should go get his black lipstick from their download of him!) nose, and the all ages/genders Juno Birch skin! Also for Rebutia and Saguaro. Traditional plants sims aren't likely to thrive in the desert! Fantasy Rogue's plant skins(they're so nice!)

Nilou's edit of Jurianne's skins for cowplant base.

Plant sim vine pngs

General Zoi

Diekatze

Tealeaf's edit of Zombie Jill's nightride eyes! Yay GoS is back!

Digital Angel's 3rd eyes!

MoonlightRaven/simmer22 Wouldn't have been able to learn how to make baby makeup without them!

[raionmimi]

Blizzard can't just say Lifeweaver used to watch Symmetra practice dancing for hours on end without giving them matching skins and synced emotes

Do you think she's taught him the steps to several duets that he'd do on his own anytime he missed her more than anything over the years because it felt like she was still with him

[chinsims]

An update to the fantasy skintone ramps for this skin here

(IMPORTANT NOTE: these tone ramps will likely not display properly when using default skins other than mine. It's only compatible with the default skin linked above)

Hello!

I noticed a few suggestions to redo the default fantasy tone ramps in my tone ramp replacer for my default skin, so here's an updated version!

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Make sure the default skin linked above is installed, then go back and download this! If you have the tone ramp replacement (separate file in the old post, NOT the same as the default skin), make sure to switch out that file for this new one. It contains both the fantasy tones pictured here as well as the natural skin tones.

Also if you haven't already, pick up the extra tone ramps from the original download! That adds several new natural undertones to choose from.

DOWNLOADS:

Default Tone Ramp Replacement

Non-Default Add-on Fantasy Tone Ramps

[caterinaofsiena]

my dark vanessa | supernatural | mysterious skin

[nyaskitten]

I came to this realization recently (and I'm not tryna accuse the show crew of anything whatsoever) but... are the Munce intended to be black-coded? Like seeing these guys w/ frohawks or locs... it's definitely Odd I think? Like I can't be the only one who feels like Somethings a bit foul here.

[industryupdate]

Rising Demand for Xenografts to Heal Burns

Any kind of external wound damages the skin to some extent. Some are mere scratches, while others are so bad that they damage the skin, the muscle underneath and the blood vessels and nerves that intertwine within, as well as the bones, ligaments, and cartilage. Among the most-common causes of severe skin damage are burns, major accidents, violence, contact with harsh chemicals, and a number of…

[van-yangyin]

Slime Head Set for Teen to Elder【Simblreen 2024】 - Weekend 2 ~ 27th

SLIME HEAD, that’s it!  Are you a slime fan and want to be one of them? Are you already one of them? Whether you are or not, buy this set now and follow the steps in instructions! Instructions:  - Rip off your head from the back of your neck.  - Use the special anti pain and to work head replacement spell… Wait a minute! No… it was… Well, never mind, these have been test ones. The next sets will come with the correct instructions…

It’s also quite possible that you’re a real Slime! Which means that you already come like this from birth and don’t need to follow any instructions… it’s very sure that your father or mother is from a non Slime species. But you can use this set anyway… To dye your head slime in another color!

Hope you enjoy this gift! 🍬🍭

🎃3 versions Slime head, Slime head with core and Slime Head with eye 🎃Head replacement located on Detail Skin, Forehead 🎃Teen to Elder ～ All genders and agender 🎃13 swatches 🎃Slime head with core, core has emission map and Slime Head with eye use eye texture of sim 🎃Base game Compatible 🎃Disable for random 🎃All LODs 🎃HQ Compatible 🎃Custom Thumbnails ⚠️This has been an experiment I’ve wanted to do for a long time but really wanted to share it with all of you at Simblreen! It’s 100% functional in game (like head replacement I shared almost a year ago of LightTree Head), but in the future I will add or modify some textures and maps to give it the look I want 100% (I’m still experimenting in Blender with nodes).

If you download my CC it means your agree with my T.O.U (English/Español/日本語). TLDR here

～LOD Information～ Slime Head Ver. : LOD0: 496 poly Slime Head with eye/core Ver.: LOD0: 976 poly

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Happy spooky simming! 🎃

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[angelbroth]

SFM practice...

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | nil 3/?

[legionofpotatoes]

they took all the whimsy out of her :(

[reddamselette]

valgrace except jason avoided leo for days after an argument. they’ve clashed violently and the entire camp could feel it almost as if a volcano erupted or electrical fires were sparked from anger and irritation. no one knows why they argued, what brought it. they didn’t even know leo and jason to fight with one another like that; like they couldn’t stand looking at each other.

but one evening just as the sun disappeared beneath the horizon and their part of the world was enveloped in darkness with only the moon as its source of light, they were finally in the same place.

neither of them spoke. how could they? it wasn’t something to immediately bounce back from. leo could still feel burns from a fire he didn’t know could touch him and jason still felt the aftershocks in his heart like he was revived to die all over again.

but jason—sweet and pure jason with recovered memories and no sense of identity or family but the ones he chose—broke the silence. and he asked, “am i making you feel sick?”