Mesh grafts--an 18 month follow-up.

Thirty-four patients, who had received either sheet or mesh grafts during surgery at the McIndoe Burns Unit, were reviewed, with a minimum follow-up period of 18 months. Expert observers were able to identify 1:1.5 mesh after close examination, but no group found the cosmetic result inferior to that of sheet graft. 1:4 mesh was uniformly identified, and cosmesis was judged unsatisfactory by all observers.