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Sharpoint™ and LOOK™ Suture Materials Guide
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 |





