Full-Thickness Skin Graft according to Surrounding Relaxed Skin Tension Line Improves Scar Quality in Facial Defect Coverage: A Retrospective Comparative Study

Figure 2

Photograph taken three months after the RSTL-matched FTSG. The patient underwent a FTSG according to RSTL after wide excision for BCC on the right cheek. The patient gave 1 point for the “thickness,” and the score was lower than the overall average (2.0). However, the observer gave 2 points for the “thickness,” and the score was higher than the average (1.84), and the observer gave 1 point for the “surface area,” and the score was lower than the average (2.37). The observer component of “thickness” was not significant, and “surface area” was significant. These two observer components are expressed as a single component called “thickness” to the patient. Therefore, this resulted in the patient’s “thickness” being accepted as a meaningful result.