[Restoration of sensation in free skin transplants].

Under study was the reestablishment of the pain, tactile and thermal sensitivity in free skin grafts in 265 patients in the period from 2-3 weeks till 25 years after free skin plasty for burn sequellae. The pain sensitivity was found to appear by the end of the first month. The tactile sensitivity was reestablished not earlier than within 1,5 month. The first signs of the thermal sensitivity made their appearance within the terms of from 3 to 6 months. By the end of the year the reestablishment of sensitivity was not accomplished.