Tissue adhesives for closure of surgical incisions: a systematic review

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Inês Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/12643
• topic: Cyanoacrylates; Fibrin sealant; Sutures; Oral mucosa; Tissue adhesives; Wound closure; Cianoacrilatos; Colas cirúrgicas; Encerramento de ferida; Mucosa oral; Selantes de fibrina; Suturas; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Médicas::Medicina Clínica

Surgical success includes a planned incision, achieving hemostasis, good mechanical closure and optimal maintenance of the surgical wound. New materials, as tissue adhesives, have been suggested as substitutes for sutures, to overcome their disadvantages. This study aimed at gathering the differences of using surgical adhesives in Oral Surgery compared to the conventional method of using sutures as a wound closure technique. PRISMA analyses, PICO criteria and PubMed/Medline database, EBSCO and Cochrane Library were used for research. Inclusion criteria included prospective, randomized controlled trials and case-control studies published in English worldwide with free full access, where clinical advantages and demerits/limitations (price, post-operative results, easiness of application, esthetics, etc.) were reported in patients who underwent oral surgical incisions, without time restrictions. Exclusion criteria comprised literature with lower level of evidence. Selected articles’ results indicate that surgical glues can be a suitable alternative and/or adjuvant to oral sutures, presenting numerous advantages.