Using Staples to shut Strip Surgery

Posted by on May 29th, 2009 at 05:31pm

Dear Dr. Rassman,

In one of your preceding posts, you said that a scar from a strip surgery will be at about 80% of healing after 6 weeks. From that logic, I wonder whether keeping the staples longer after a strip surgery (for 6-8 weeks, rather than the usual 14 days for instance) would help in getting a better scar…

I know that for practical and cosmetic reasons, keeping the staples longer can be problematic for many society, but in special cases where there is increasingly tightness due … [visit site to read more]

Original post by William Rassman, MD

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