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Materials Chart

This chart shows leading manufacturers' material names.

Sharpoint™ and LOOK™	Ethicon™	Syneture™	Material
Plain Gut	Surgical Gut	SurgiGut™	Natural Absorbable Gut
Chromic Gut	Surgical Gut	SurgiGut™	Natural Absorbable Gut
---PolySyn FA™---	Vicryl Rapide™(Coated)	--------	Coated, Braided Synthetic Absorbable
PolySyn™/PGA	Vicryl™ (Coated)	Polysorb™	Coated, Braided Synthetic Absorbable
Monoderm™	Monocryl™	Caprosyn™/Biosyn™	Coated, Monofilament Synthetic Absorbable
Polyviolene™	Mersilene™ (Uncoated) Ethibond™ (Coated)	Surgidac™/Ti-Cron™	Non-Absorbable, Coated/Braided Polyester ™ (Coated)
Nylon	Ethilon™	Monosof™/Dermalon™	Non-Absorbable, Monofilament Nylon
Silk	Permahand Silk™ (Coated)	Sofsilk™	Non-Absorbable, Coated/Braided Silk
Polypropylene	Prolene™	Surgipro™/Surgilene™	Non-Absorbable, Monofilament

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