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Suture materials play an important role in veterinary surgery, but many veterinarians overlook important details and try to use one suture material for too many applications. Most veterinarians with no postgraduate training in surgery select suture materials based on hospital policy or cost, whereas veterinarians with postgraduate training in surgery select suture material based on a more complete understanding of suture materials and indications. The ideal suture would be in place only as long as needed and would then immediately disappear. Tissues heal at different rates, so materials that are more slowly absorbed are best used only in tissues that take a long time to heal. Suture should cause minimal tissue reaction, and the surgeon should attempt to minimize the amount of suture buried because all suture is foreign material. The amount of inflammation caused by different suture materials is illustrated in Figure 2.1. With the exception of rodents and rabbits, there are relatively few studies specifically examining suture materials in exotic animals.