Yes: Permanent suture material becomes an irritant to some people's bodies. The suture is essentially "rejected" by the body over time. Typically, the sutures serve as a small source of chronic infection, with a small, continuous amount of whitish drainage until they are ejected from the same skin site where the pus drains. Once the material is ejected the site will finally heal over.
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