**9. Conclusions**

Our current understanding of wound healing and cell subpopulations within the skin has allowed us to develop scar-reducing therapies, however, they are not as effective as needed to make them the mainstay of available wound healing modalities. While research regarding this elusive therapeutic modality is underway, successful scarless wound healing would require not only an understanding of signalling molecules and growth factors but also a thorough understanding of lineage-specific cellular origin and function during both foetal and adult stages.
