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Materials Chart

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Sharpoint™	Ethicon™	Syneture™	Material
Plain Gut	Surgical Gut	SurgiGut™	Natural Absorbable Gut
Chromic Gut	Surgical Gut	SurgiGut™	Natural Absorbable Gut
PolySyn™/PGA	Vicryl™ (Coated)	Polysorb™	Coated, Braided Synthetic Absorbable
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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