Bezrukov S. G., Khomenko E.V.

The department of dentistry (the head of department – prof. Bezrukov),Crimea state medical university named after S. I. Georgievsky, Simferopol.

 

The clinical estimation the efficiency of   the intradermal reinforced suture use in the dental surgery.

 

    Is known, that the result of postoperative wound healing is the scar formation, aesthetic and functional properties of which significantly determined by operating machinery, atraumatic handling of tissues, right choice the way of   wound edges  joining. The achievement of optimical conditions for wound healing and  aesthetic  scar formation are possible in case if the used method  of suture respond the following requirements: accurate and complete comparison of the wound edges throughout and uniform compression , original cosmetic effect, ease of applying and removing.The cosmetic suture, which correspond the all requirements does not exist yet. Therefore improvement of existing methods of suture  and the creation the new method is promising direction of investigation in maxillofacial surgery.

      The purpose of work: comparative issue of the results of intradermal reinforced suture and continuous intradermal cosmetic  suture use in maxillofacial surgery by data of clinical and instrumental methods of investigation.

      The material and methods. The clinical part of work is the examination and operative treatment of 101 patients.Were carried out 101 operations about benign growth in maxillofacial area, using combined anesthesia. The main stage of operation,  associated with the elimanation of  pathological formation was typical, the same for both groups of comparison. The superficial sutures were applied accordingly to the group. After operation completion the patients of both group were closed the wound by aceptic compressive bandage. In postoperative period prescribed therapy by standard scheme. For estimation the influence of  comparative methods of wound  suturing on regenaration processes of  injured tissues used the following methods of investigation : clinical, local thermometry of skin,  ultrasound scan of paravulnar area.

     Results

   The clinical signs of inflammation in the postoperative wound area in patients of main group registrated less  on the average and were less expressed, than in control. The inflammatory processes in patients of main group were absent in 100%of cases on 7th  day after  intervention, and at the same time in 12,2% patients of control group still noticed mild soreness in paravulnar area. The increase of local temperutare of skin in postoperative wound area was noticed in both groups. The amplitude of modification in control group( +0,64°C till +2,83°C) was higher than in main group (+0,15°C till +2,49 °C).The normalization of local temperutare became faster in patients of main group : on 5 day differences of  average indexes in groups lost their credibility. In control group the pointed differences were significant until 7th day after operation (p<0,05). During the  ultrasound scan determined ultrasound density of formating scar, and calculated the individual relatival indexes ( G% - ratio  the density of the scar  to the density of the intact dermis in ^ and H -  ratio the density of the  border of the dermis and hypodermis to density of formating scar. The most informative, in our opinion, is G% index, because it clearly demonstrates how much the formating scar close to intact dermis by it structure. The differences of averange value of the index in grops of investigation

 became statically significant (p<0,05) after 6 month after operation . After ultrasound investigation year after surgery the differences of G%  in main group (97,3±1,6%) and the level of the norm (100%0 were losing reliability. At the same time the averange index in control group(91,7±1,0%)  significantly different from the both the level of norm and the same index in main group.

     Conclusions:

1.     In clinic the wound healing , applied by the intradermal reinforced suture in early postoperative period ,passes on the background of less expressive phenomenon of hyperemia, edema and pain component.

2.     The data, received during the thermometric investigation , point out the more favorable condition of wound healing in patients of main group , the amplitude of change of the index of local temperature in patients of main group lower that the control and normalization of index become faster.

3.     Result of ultrasound scanning point out that after applying intradermal reinforced suture the scars  formed faster and almost indistinguishable from the intact skin by it structure.