Wound healing is a very important aspect of the postoperative process. Depending on many different factors relating to a post-operative wound; Different steps can be taken to reduce the risk of a patient developing an infection. The only goal a surgical team wants to achieve is to leave a less visible scar and no infection in the wound. There are different challenges and situations that a surgical technologist and the surgeon will need to work around. The healing process depends on the type of wound and its classification, complications that may arise, postoperative infections, and the role of the surgical technologist in the healing process. There are four classes of surgical wound types based on the level of wound contamination. : clean (Class I), clean-contaminated (Class II), contaminated (Class III) and dirty-infected (Class IV) ("Healing and Wound Classification", 2007, p. 26, 28, 30 and 32). Clean wounds (Class I) occur under normal operating room conditions and sterile technique is maintained. Clean contamination (Class II) is present when there may be b...