This study compared the healing, the type of micro-organisms around the suture material, pain score during removal of suture / staple and cost of the closure material per patient. Sixty patients were allocated in 4 groups. Each group had 15 patients, aged 16 to 70 years of age with isolated fractured zygoma. They were prospectively randomly selected to have staple, silk, prolene or vicryl rapid...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Empirical evidence is needed to assess clinical appropriateness of any new surgical device or material. Differences in surgical outcomes between Vicryl figure-of-8 and V-Loc barbed sutures for vaginal cuff closure during robotic hysterectomy were assessed. METHODS We examined the electronic medical records of 202 patients who underwent scheduled robotic-assisted tota...

INTRODUCTION The objectives of this prospective randomized study were to clinically evaluate the longevity of resorbable sutures (chromic catgut and vicryl) and determine the effect of chlorhexidine mouth wash on their absorption time in oral surgical procedures. Both sutures were of size 3/0 with round body needle and were placed using the standard technique. METHODS AND MATERIALS One hundre...

Abstract Aim Surgical site infection (SSI) occurs in 2–10% of the patients after abdominal surgery and has an impact on morbidity, mortality medical costs. The aim this systematic review meta-analysis was to evaluate whether use triclosan-coated sutures for fascial closure adominal decrease rate SSI compared uncoated sutures. Methods A conducted using PRISMA guidelines. literature search perfor...

purpose: to compare the results of two methods of canalicular laceration repair. methods: this clinical trial was performed on 50 eyes of 50 patients with lacerated canaliculi who were randomly assigned to two groups. direct reanastomosis of the lacerated canaliculus was performed using 8-0 vicryl suture (25 eyes) and indirect repair was performed by reapproximation of the overlying orbicularis...

Intraperitoneal onlay mesh (IPOM) technique of fixation using tackers for ventral hernia is widely done. But costly (266.29 USD) and causes early late post-operative pain. The aim the study was to choose better method surgery composite straight needle suture nylon 2–0 intraperitoneal (IPOM-AS) will compare it with conventional IPOM in which Fixation done by Tacker. Ten patients who were diagnos...