Is removing suture material from some patients more difficult than others? Would remaining suture material cause issues? (photo)

Surgeons use either absorbable sutures that typically go under the skin and it will eventually dissolve with time or permanent sutures that are removed after surgery in the clinic. Three days is a very short amount of time to remove skin sutures. Typically at three days incisions are not healed.
An exposed suture will act as a foreign body and can and typically will get contaminated with bacteria. The body will try to seal it off with scar tissue and often it eventually becomes incorporated into the tissues.
If it isn’t causing you any problems then there’s nothing inherently dangerous about having suture material inside of you. If it bothers you then you should go back to your surgeon and ask him to remove it.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom MD