Dear Dr.Rassman,
I have been reading your blog for quite sometime and have a high regard for your opinions.
I’m considering a transplant and I have a question regarding the scar closure methods different doctors use. I have read they could use staples, sutures and dissolvable sutures. Could you please discuss the pros and cons of the three different methods. In your surgeries which would you prefer and why.Thanks a lot for your time in advance.
I would have to write a textbook on the logic that distinguishes why one may be better than the others. Essentially, I use them all in different circumstances. I do prefer staples much of the time, because it is fast for the surgery and the staples allow blood to go between them, which in theory gives more blood supply to the skin edge. Sutures have a tendency to constrict the skin along the skin edge when they are use in a baseball type of way.
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