The acupuncture needles are not considered as "experimental medical devices" even by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after reviewing the existing body of knowledge on it. The U.S. Food ...

Larger needles can close more tissue with each stitch while smaller needles are more likely to reduce scarring. Just like there are many different types of sutures, there are many different suture ...

The world’s thinnest surgical needles have a diameter of 0.03 millimeters and are just 0.8 mm long. And the thread they pull is so fine, at 0.012 mm in diameter, that it is invisible to the ...

To evaluate the role and efficacy of portable X-ray in reliably identifying retained suture needles in ophthalmologic surgical cases. Ophthalmologic 10−0 nylon suture needles were placed into 10 ...