Silk
Surgical sutures made of silk
Surgical sutures made of silk non-absorbable in a wide variety.
SILK Knitted Non-Absorbable Silk Suture can generally be used for the convergence, contact and/or convergence of soft tissues but its use is not indicated for the tissues of the central cardiovascular and central nervous system.
characteristic of the reaction to a foreign body followed by the gradual creation of a capsule of connective tissue around the suture. Despite the fact that silk sutures are not absorbed, they undergo gradual hydrolysis in vivo resulting in their complete loss of strength.