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  2. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    Common time to remove stitches will vary: facial wounds 3–5 days; scalp wound 7–10 days; limbs 10–14 days; joints 14 days; trunk of the body 7–10 days. [23] [better source needed] Removal of sutures is traditionally achieved by using forceps to hold the suture thread steady and pointed scalpel blades or scissors to cut.

  3. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    Surgical staples are specialized staples used in surgery in place of sutures to close skin wounds or to resect and/or connect parts of an organ (e.g. bowels, stomach or lungs). The use of staples over sutures reduces the local inflammatory response, width of the wound, and time it takes to close a defect. [1]

  4. Hair transplantation - Wikipedia

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    The recovery period is around 2 weeks and will require the stitches/staples to be removed by medical personnel or sub cuticular suturing can be done. Follicular unit extraction (FUE) With Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE harvesting, individual follicular units containing 1 to 4 hairs are removed under local anesthesia; this micro removal ...

  5. Management of hair loss - Wikipedia

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    The strip, two to three millimeters thick, is isolated and transplanted to the bald scalp. [54] After surgery, a bandage is worn for two days to protect the stitched strip during healing. A small strip scar remains after healing, which can be covered by scalp hair growing over the scar. [55]

  6. Scalp reconstruction - Wikipedia

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    The posterior scalp skin thickness is 1.48 mm; [3] the temporal scalp is 1.38mm; [3] and the anterior scalp thickness is 1.18 mm. [3] The scalp contains approximately 100.000 hairs. [citation needed] Hair lines make scalp reconstruction difficult because the hair lines must be respected to attain a satisfying aesthetic result. [4]

  7. Scalp reduction - Wikipedia

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    Scalp reduction became very popular starting in the 1960s and, by the 1980s, was considered one of the most effective treatments for baldness. [ citation needed ] It is not commonly performed today, with around 5,000 men per year receiving hair transplantation [ 3 ] instead of a full scalp reduction surgery. [ 4 ]

  8. Why do doctors always ask about your last menstrual period ...

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    Knowing the first day of a woman’s last menstrual period is useful in other ways. Dr. Arlene Go, an ob-gyn and ... Nayot adds that “aggregated data” over time gives doctors even more ...

  9. Simple interrupted stitch - Wikipedia

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    It is known as an interrupted stitch because the individual stitches aren't connected; they are separate. Placing and tying each stitch individually is time-consuming, but this technique keeps the wound together even if one suture fails. [1] It is simple, and relatively easy to place. A surgeon's knot or knots cross the wound perpendicularly ...