Publications by authors named "G V Seshiah"
Background: Closing the surgical incision is an important step in the surgical procedures, the success of surgery is sometimes compromised by the defective suturing techniques or improper suturing materials, black silk sutures are more or less most often used materials in the day today surgical procedures, but these suture materials demand more time and effort from the surgeon and there is a need to substitute these materials with more user friendly and more successful wound closing materials such as cyanoacrylates. This study intends to compare effectiveness of the black silk sutures with cyanoacrylate adhesives in closing the surgical incisions.
Materials & Methods: 10 patients of age group between 15-30 years who underwent bilateral apicoetomy were given 3-0 black silk sutures on one side and n-butyl-2cyanoacrylate adhesive on the other side of the frenum to close the surgical incision, and a clinical comparison was made on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th post-operative days, on the seventh postoperative day following removal of sutures, small punch biopsies were obtained from both the sites and the tissue specimens were examined under transmission electron microscope.