Donating Excess Skin? Forget About It!
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Wife and I were talking about the possibility of donating our excess folds of skin in exchange for cosmetic surgery. A little research this morning put that idea to rest.
http://www.traumaburn.org/who/skinbank/faq.shtml
Skin harvesting is only done on deceased folks, primarily because of the FDA requiring a quarantine period of 6 months. Also, expensive specialists must do the work, you get a lot more skin from a whole body, etc.
We are back to our defense mechanism mindset that loose is lovely.