universalsutures

A suture is a filament of material, natural or synthetic, used to tie blood vessels together and to tie tissues together. Suture materials are the earliest and most frequent application of textile materials for closing surgical wounds. Linen was used as a suture material more than 4,000 years ago. Since then, numerous materials such as ligatures and sutures have been used. It includes: steel wire, gold, silver, dried gut, horse hair, leather straps, bark fibers, silk, linen and tendon. This property allows sutures to minimize chronic reactions from undesirable tissues after the sutures have lost most of their mechanical properties like  bone wax . The last feature introduced in the sutures is multi functionality. A typical example is Vicryl coated with Triclosa. The  polypropylene suture   which has antimicrobial capacity to reduce the possibility of wound infection. Today, surgeons can choose from a large number of suture materials with various chemical, physical, mechanical, and biol