Donating Excess Skin? Forget About It!

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.