How do absorbable sutures absorb? A prospective double-blind randomized clinical study of tissue reaction to polyglactin 910 sutures in human skin.

Objective: To compare the tissue reaction produced by 2 gauges of implanted polyglactin 910(Vicryl) suture material in human skin.

Methods: A prospective, double masked, parallel randomized IRB approved clinical trial. Consecutive patients with involutional entropion and horizontal eyelid laxity were randomly allocated to 5/0 or 7/0 gauge test suture groups.

Skin grafts in the periocular region without a bolstered dressing.

Purpose: To assess success and intervention rates for full-thickness skin grafts in the periocular region without the use of a sutured bolster dressing.

Methods: A clinical assessment of the long-term outcome in consecutive patients who underwent skin-grafting procedures without a bolstered dressing between 2003 and 2009 under a single surgeon (BP). All patients were independently clinically evaluated by two surgeons to assess final graft outcome.