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Do permanent sutures ever get rejected from the body as they are a foreign substance?

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If the literature shows that it's not the sutures but the scar tissue that holds the diastasis repair together, why aren't more surgeons using long term dissolvable sutures? Permanent sutures or dissolvable

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