Wound healing is a complicated and continuous process affected by several factors, which needs an appropriate surroundingto achieve accelerated healing. Wound healing process recruits three different phases: inflammation, proliferation, and maturation. Dueto the different types of wounds, as well as the advancement in medical technology, various products have been developed to repair dif-ferent skin lesions. Our objective is to investigate the advancement in wound dressings from traditional to the current methods of treat-ment. The article presents the characteristics of an ideal wound dressing, the requirements for the appropriate selection of differenttypes of wounds, and a detailed classification of wound dressings. Animal origin, herbal origin, and synthetic dressings arefirstly intro-duced and reviewed. Then, nonmedicated dressings including alginate, hydrogel, and hydrocolloid dressings, as well as medicated dress-ings are discussed. Finally, the developmental prospectives of the new generations of wound dressings for future researches arepresented.