My husband has had two skin grafts taken from his upper right leg for two reconstructions, the first one took forever to heal, ended up just leaving gauze on and cutting the edges as they came loose, for a while we did wet to dry dressings 4 times a day, but that was really painful..........anyhow, that was in November, and I am amazed at how much the scarring has faded from the first one....the second was in March and is doing well............docs do like to let them heal on their own, unless they get infected.