Absorbable Sutures

I had some minor surgery in my mouth yesterday and the stitches are driving me crazy. Does anybody know how long it takes for absorbable sutures generally take to dissolve?

Just long enough so you will forget how much of a pain in the ass they are about a month after they are gone. Any longer and you would remember them and not get them again.

Seriously you will wake up one morning and think "did I swallow them last night"? (the answer is yes you did)

yeah...I had them when my wisdom teeth came out. about 2 weeks and they were gone.

The last set I had used orally were gone in about 2-3 days. Always wondered if the suiture material used orally is different because it always breaks down far quicker than the ones used elsewhere.

I think that's because of all the spit in your mouth, which speeds up the dissolving process. I've never had absorbable mouth sutures, but the normal ones are annoying.

My daughter just had her wisdom teeth out, and they lasted 48 hours or so.

The absorbable sutures from my, errrr, "fixing" earlier this year lasted about 6 weeks. I had my wife take them out with nail scissors.

I think they have different kinds, but for the last oral surgery I had (June), they were mostly gone in a couple of days. The dentist pulled out one little piece that was left at my 1 week follow-up visit.

Usually they last 5-7 days.  The knots can last longer than that tho

When I had a few teeth pulled last year I spit them out within a week, but it took a month for what I thought were scabs but turned out to be odd pieces of tooth to finally quit working their way out of my gums

OMG zombie thread almost old enough to drive!

Woody sticking his tongue in the suture hole woke up a Zombie?  =~ 0

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Holy E36 M3 I didn't even notice even though Duke's post really confused me