Eli5 when someone gets an injury that requires a skin graft, how does the area they take the graft from recover?

Question

I’m assuming they stitch it but can’t stitch the original location for some reason but I still can’t wrap my head around it?

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Answer 1

They usually take a thin layer from the graft site, so that the layer of the skin that can still recover and thicken is intact on the graft source.