Is Hydrogel an Appropriate Bioadhesive Material for Sutureless Oral Wound Closure?
Huda Moutaz Asmael Al‐Azzawi, Rita Paolini, Antonio Celentano · 2024
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Description
Closing a mouth wound without stitches would spare patients pain, but a glue for the oral cavity must be strong, flexible, safe, and able to move with wet tissue. The authors review hydrogels as candidate bioadhesives for sutureless oral wound closure. They first survey the materials now used for stitch-free oral surgery, including synthetic cyanoacrylates and natural fibrin glue, each with known limits. Then they examine hydrogels in depth: their properties, their uses elsewhere in the body, and what holds them back.
Hydrogels look promising, the authors find, and steady improvements keep widening their medical uses. Yet for all their use in other dental problems, nobody has truly explored them for sealing oral wounds. Drawing on their own surgical experience, the authors propose fresh applications for hydrogels in the mouth. They close by framing hydrogels as an opportunity the field has not yet taken.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huda Moutaz Asmael Al‐Azzawi, Rita Paolini, Antonio Celentano |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |