Do dissolvable stitches ever work?

You have to pour rubbing alcohol on them.

I have them right now post-wisdom tooth extraction and never been so glad to see them start to dissolve. If you have them in the mouth, it seems salt water rinses help them along.

Different ones dissolve at different rates. Many people use absorbable under the skin and nonabsorbable for the skin itself, which means it has to be removed.

People tend to use chromic gut or vicryl in the mouth which really take 2-4 weeks to fully dissolve and usually end up falling out before they dissolve all the way.

On the skin depends on where and what they close with. Fast gut tends to dissolve in about 1-2 weeks. We can do absorbable under the skin you never see. I've seen some people use chromic on the skin itself, which takes several weeks to dissolve, so usually needs to be cut out or itl'l leave tracks.

My dog got them when his balls were taken. I never examined him to see if the stitches went away but I assume they did.

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Brilliant surgeon Leonard Nimoy tried to kill a guy by using them, but Lt Columbo caught on to his game

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So you’re saying I’ll probably have to go to the doctor?

I had them in my sack and they did the job.

The ones I had for my nuts dissolved

I just had a huge gash on my shin and the docs used those to stitch me up - They were all gone in 3 weeks. Had some problems with the wound bleeding a bit.

Meet me at Sonic and you can find out for yourself.