Not sure if this should go in the rules questions or advice forum, but I'm wondering how magical healing works with large wounds. For example, my party has come across some poor souls who have had their flesh stripped partial off by demons. If they cast cure spells on them, are they just healed, and restored to their previously completely covered-in-flesh normal state? I have had DMs in the past require a restoration spell to reattach recently severed limbs but the spell doesn't say it does that, so it must have been a house rule.
They do talk about it a bit with Regeneration rules, eg. a RING OF REGENERATION can grow limbs, as can a Troll (I think).
But in general vhok is correct and this kind of thing is usually hand-waved.
I'm not 100% sure that there are no rules for this kind of thing otherwise, but I haven't seen them. I think Restoration or similar makes sense though (probably lesser restoration unless they've beem completely flayed).
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Generally, if the creature has suffered that kind of massive wounds there is some kind of damage that has to be healed in a different way. If the damage suffered is only HP it is totally healed.
As an example, the guy that has part of its flesh stripped away could have suffered some Charisma and Constitution drain. The drain requires a Restoration to be healed.
To translate it in off game terms, the stripping of the flesh has removed part of his derma and muscles, healing the HP restores it like the healing in RL of very serious burns, leaving some permanent scarring and an area where the derma is more fragile. The restoration heals that.
A missing limb will require a Regeneration spell. Wery few attacks do that, but it can be the consequence of torture or a punishment (it was common to chop the hand of thieves ins several cultures).