Bacterial Adherence Around Sutures of Different Material at Grafted Site: A Microbiological Analysis
Lanka Mahesh,
Varun Raj Kumar,
Anshi Jain,
Sagrika Shukla,
Juan Manuel Aragoneses,
José María Martínez González,
Manuel Fernández-Domínguez,
José Luis Calvo-Guirado
Affiliations
Lanka Mahesh
Private Practice, New Delhi 110001, India
Varun Raj Kumar
Private Practice, New Delhi 110001, India
Anshi Jain
Department of Oral Pathology, ITS Dental College, Ghaziabad 201009, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sagrika Shukla
Department of Periodontology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh 249201, India
Juan Manuel Aragoneses
Department of Dental Research in Universidad Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (UFHEC), Santo Domingo 10107, Dominican Republic
José María Martínez González
Department Oral Surgery, University Complutense of Madrid, 28223 Madrid, Spain
Manuel Fernández-Domínguez
Department of Oral Surgery and Implantology and Director of Research in Dentistry in the Doctoral Program of Translational Medicine, CEU San Pablo University, 28223 Madrid, Spain
José Luis Calvo-Guirado
Department of Oral Surgery and Implant Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Católica de Murcia, UCAM, 30107 Murcia, Spain
Closure of the surgical incision has been the primary function of sutures since their introduction. However, whatever the type, they are known to carry bacteria, which can be a source of infection. Five types of surgical sutures, Gut, Silk, Vicryl, PTFE, and Polyamide, were selected and tested on their ability to carry aerobic and anaerobic bacteria and were rated on the basis of forming colony-forming units (CFUs). Aerobic bacteria grown around gut sutures showed minimum CFUs (≈30 × 104/suture). Though very less anaerobic bacteria growth was seen among all tested suture materials, it was maximum around Vicryl and polyamide sutures. Every suture material is capable, albeit not equally, of holding bacterial biofilm formation, which can be a source of surgical site infection.
