When surgeons repair tissues, they're currently limited to mechanical solutions such as sutures and staples, which can cause their own damage, or meshes and glues that may not adequately bond with ...

The global Surgical Sutures Market, valued at US$4.56 billion in 2024 stood at US$4.84 billion in 2025 and is projected to ...

Engineers have designed tissue-derived 'smart' sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The sutures are coated with hydrogels that can be ...

Aims The role of adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery has mainly been limited to conditions like dysthyroid restrictive myopathy, blow-out fractures of orbit, aberrant regeneration of nerves ...

Sutures made with monocryl do not need to be removed. Monocryl is an absorbable suture, which explains why it doesn't need to be removed. What are people curious about?

Sutures seeded with microalgae for 14 days are able to produce oxygen (bubbles) in vitro. (Courtesy: Acta Biomaterialia 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.09.060 ©2018) To further increase the potential of this ...

A Shanghai woman who underwent a double eyelid procedure had to get her sutures removed at the gate of her residential complex after it was placed under Covid-19 lockdown. The woman, whose name ...

Now, she’s focused on making sure the sutures actually help people. “Equity work has my heart, and that’s what I want to do for my career,” Taylor said.

They demonstrated that the electrical stimulation produced by these sutures can speed the healing of muscle wounds in rats and reduce the risk of infection. “Our research group has been working on ...

Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem ...

Albert B. Lowenfels, MD Disclosures June 30, 2010 Sutures Versus Staples for Skin Closure in Orthopaedic Surgery: Meta-analysis Smith TO, Sexton D, Mann C, Donell S BMJ. 2010;340:c1199 ...