Not only in plastic and in aesthetic surgery any scars should be invisible. For this reason surgeons developed several, sometimes high sophisticated suturing methods and glue technology. Current medical glues acted immediately like super glue and were accordingly difficult to handle. Recently, doctors from Boston reported about promising results of a test with a new tissue glue. This glue hardens only after it is activated using a light stream, similarly to the hardening of plastic tooth fillings by dentists. Scientists tested the new method on 31 persons. Such a mode of handling of wound closure is very innovative and improves the quality of the scar clearly.
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Laser Welding instead of stitching a wound.
Source: S. Tsao et al,
Light Activated Tissue Bonding for Excisional Wound Closure: A Split-Lesion Clinical Trial, Brit j dermatol, 2011 Oct 27, (e-pub ahead of print),
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10710.x
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