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Stainless steel is an alloy of chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and is available as a monofilament or braided suture (Fossum 2002; Tan et al. 2003). It is biologically inert and has the greatest strength of all suture materials. Stainless steel sutures are extremely stiff and tend to cut through tissues or cause necrosis when there is tissue movement over buried knots.