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A Simplified Protocol for Protecting Palatal Soft Tissue Donor Sites Using an Oral Mucoadhesive Bandage
Published on: February 17, 2026
[Surgical wound healing in oral surgery]
M Bocca1, D Coscia, L Bottalico
1Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, Università degli Studi, Torino.
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.
