A burn claim settled on the hospital bill misses most of the injury. Serious burns are treated for years after discharge, through repeated grafting, revision surgery, contracture release, pressure garments, scar management, and psychological care, and in a growing child the reconstruction repeats as they grow. Disfigurement is also its own damages category in Texas, separate from pain. The Law Offices of Brent A. Devere handles burn injury claims in Austin and across Central Texas.