Postoperative care is an important aspect of trachomatous trichiasis (TT) surgical services. Follow-up visits should ideally take place on the first postoperative day (to remove the eye patch), after 8–14 days (to remove sutures; optional if absorbable sutures are used), at 3 months (to re-examine the operated lid for intermediate surgical outcomes), and then at or after six months. An eye patc...

The Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo, Medical School is a referral center for the treatment of congenital heart diseases of neonates and infants. In the recent years, the excellent surgical results obtained in our institution may be in part due to modern anesthetic care and to postoperative care based on well-structured protocols. The purpose of this article is to review unique as...

The ultimate goal of wound management in periodontal surgery is a tension-free primary wound closure which reduces postoperative problems, healing time, and the risk of bacterial contamination of the wound area to a minimum. Modern minimally invasive, microsurgical concepts using multilayered suturing approaches with thin monofilament suture materials facilitate primary wound closure and increa...