A member asked:

I had a suture on my upper eyelid a month ago and the doctor said it will absorb but i feel scared. is the human body capable of absorbing all types of stitches? also the muscles there are totally gone which makes it hard to close the eye. help pleas

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Suture: If the doctor put an absorbable suture in the body should absorb that. Now if you had a cut always possible the wound could have been not cleaned good and a foreign body could be under the skin. This causes a granuloma.

Answered 12/18/2019

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