Silicone-based adhesive strips applied perpendicular to the wound line after suture removal can continue supporting the healing tissue for several weeks, reducing tension on the newly formed scar.

More information: Hwajoong Kim et al, Bioelectronic Sutures with Electrochemical pH‐Sensing for Long‐Term Monitoring of the Wound Healing Progress, Advanced Functional Materials (2024). DOI ...

A team at McGill University has come up with novel kind of suture that is based on human tendons, which enables it to not only heal wounds more effectively, but possibly even monitor their ...

Instead of sutures, a self-healing antibacterial polymer; instead of examining the wound, integrated smart monitoring.

After 24 hours, fibroblasts, which are critical to healing, reduced the wound area from 69 percent to 11 percent. Untreated artificial wounds reduced in size from 69 percent to 33 percent after 24 ...

Contrarily, the developed electronic suture adds the function of continuously monitoring the inflammatory condition of a wound, which makes it possible to take care of wounds more effectively in ...

Article Title. Bioelectronic Sutures with Electrochemical pH-Sensing for Long-Term Monitoring of the Wound Healing Progress ...

Why couldn’t they have just put in stitches and saved me months of healing? — D.J. ANSWER: A wound can be sutured (stitched) closed when it is new, clean and regular.

Surgical stitches, or sutures, are used to close wounds following injury or surgery and to support the healing process. But sutured wounds are susceptible to infection, with infections at surgical ...

ANSWER: A wound can be sutured (stitched) closed when it is new, clean and regular. A wound cannot be closed if it is infected or irregular. Most chronic wounds cannot be closed by stitching. Also, if ...

Sutures are typically used when minimizing scarring is important or when the wound is too large to heal naturally. In some cases, surgeons may reconstruct the area using nearby tissue or a skin graft.

The Suture in Space experiment is also known by a lengthier moniker: Wound Healing and Sutures in Unloading Conditions. During a four-week period, astronauts will divide the eight sutured samples ...