title: [Surgical wound healing in oral surgery].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Aim of this study is to improve the in vivo knowledge about the real effects and the physiologic repair by a detached stitches silk suture in the 8th zone.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study has been carried out on 44 patients submitted to surgical extraction of the impacted 8th (19 upper and 25 lower) teeth.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Clinical and histological controls have demonstrated the usefulness of this suture procedure, since it gives a good histological reaction and in easy and safe.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Histological and clinical results have confirmed the usefulness of silk suture, presenting however the inconvenience of stitches removal and bacterial plaque on the surgical wound.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, Università degli Studi, Torino.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bocca
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coscia
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bottalico
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Libro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009055:Mouth / Q000601:surgery*; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014945:Wound Healing