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Remember when you were a kid and skinned your knee? For Rock, that would be last week, so he should remember. After the scab formed and dried, what was underneath was a health granulation bed: lots and lots of tiny blood vessels in a relatively thick layer of fibrous tissue, with little or no infection.
It serves as a "bed" for skin to grow over, primarily by contraction with a wound like this.
Doggie's skin edges had already started contracting, making the hole smaller, but it would have taken a long time, several weeks to months, to fill in a hole this size, so I speeded things up by releasing the skin edges, placing a drain to remove fluids, and suturing the edges together. Luckily this was in an area where the skin is thick and mobile.
Piece of cake, really.
It serves as a "bed" for skin to grow over, primarily by contraction with a wound like this.
Doggie's skin edges had already started contracting, making the hole smaller, but it would have taken a long time, several weeks to months, to fill in a hole this size, so I speeded things up by releasing the skin edges, placing a drain to remove fluids, and suturing the edges together. Luckily this was in an area where the skin is thick and mobile.
Piece of cake, really.