BACKGROUND:. The dressing of wounds is an old art and has undergone a wide variety of changes from ancient herbal dressing to modern dressing materials. An ideal wound care product in addition to control the infection should also protect the normal tissues and must not interfere with the normal wound healing. Various treatment modalities have been discovered over the years in forms of different types of wound dressings like creams, ointments, solutions while other classes of wound dressings are occlusive dressing, non-occlusive dressing, absorptive dressing, skin substitutes and negative suction vacuum dressing.METHODS: prospective, observational study carried out in Dept. of General Surgery, Narayana Medical College, Nellore 1st September 2020 to 30th August 2022 in 50 patients divided in two groups. conventional dressing materials (Regime A) and newer dressing materials (Regime B) on random basis. Povidone iodine, H2O2, EUSOL and liquid paraffin are the conventional materials which are compared with the newer materials such as oxum, oxoferine, collagen and opsite. RESULTS & CONCLUSION : maximum age group between 51 to 60 (23%) years. A total of 17 females were enrolled during this study, out of which 9 patients were considered in Regime A and 8 patients in Regime B. 33 males were enrolled in this study, out of which 17 were included in Regime A and 16 in Regime B. The time required for the appearance of granulation tissue by newer dressing materials took 3 days when compared to the conventional dressing materials and finally the time required for the healing ulcer took 4 days early with newer dressing materials compared to conventional dressing materials