The surgeon will generally use dissolvable stitches, which do not need to be removed.

Ask for dissolvable stitches so you don't have to return to have them removed.

Extra deep dissolvable stitches are used to take the stress of the suture line.

There was about half an hour of surgery and I had 70 dissolvable stitches inside my head and 30 outside.

The material has been normally used in dissolvable stitches and soft tissue implants.

For a week after the surgery, Jones would wake up in pain from a morning erection pulling at the dissolvable stitches.

They then constructed a tiny mesh tube out of the same material used for dissolvable stitches in surgeries to act as a scaffold.

Whenever possible, the doctors use dissolvable stitches because they can't rely on the compliance of patients who might not have enough money to make a return trip.

Agustin Cuesta had the deer brought into the clinic and closed a wound on its hind leg with dissolvable stitches as assistants held it down.

The new Absorb device is made from a natural material known as a polylactide, which is commonly used in medical implants such as dissolvable stitches.

WebMD reports the nanoparticles were 200 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair and made from the same material used to create dissolvable stitches.

PLLA has been used for many years in dissolvable stitches and medical implants as well as for cosmetic purposes in Europe for the past ten years.

The abdominal incision for this surgery may be up to eight inches in length and is typically closed with staples on the outside and several layers of dissolvable stitches on the inside.

Another volumizing option is poly-L-lactic acid (marketed in the U.S. as Sculptra), a synthetic polymer that has been widely used in dissolvable stitches, bone screws and facial implants.

The cat is given dissolvable stitches following the operation and, if we have dealt with a simple spay or castration, it can be released after 24 hours, a timespan accepted by our vets as adequate for recovery.

The bandage acts as a type of ‘scaffolding’ for skin cells to latch onto and after six to eight weeks when new skin tissue has formed, the dressing is absorbed into the bloodstream in the same way dissolvable stitches are.