Suture materials essential properties

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The characteristics of a large number of synthetic suture materials are described, together with essential suture properties such as tensile strength, knot strength, elasticity, tissue reaction and biodegradabiUty. 

The above characteristics are based on four essential properties of suture materials ... 

Table 10.1 summarizes the characteristics of each of the four essential properties. It is important to recognize that these characteristics are interrelated. For example, capillarity of a suture material, which is a physical/ mechanical property, is closely related to the ability of the suture to transport bacteria, which is a biological property. The modulus of elasticity, a physical/mechanical property, affects the pliability of sutures, a handling property. A brief description of each of those essential properties will be given below and they are Usted in Tables 10.1 through 10.7. Readers should be aware of the fact that the data in the tables vary with the specific clinical and/or physical environments that suture materials are subjected to and the constant refining of manufacturing processes by suture manufacturers. 

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