Sentence examples for watertight closure from inspiring English sources

Thus, this flap could be ideal for any oral and maxillofacial surgical procedure in which tension-free, watertight closure is desired.

While watertight closure of the dura is a long-standing tenet of cranial surgery, it is often not possible and sometimes unnecessary.

It involves scoring of the buccal periosteum to enhance flap mobility and then stretching the buccal tissues medially (palatally or lingually) to obtain tension-free, watertight closure of a wound.

After securing watertight closure of scleral laceration, disinserted muscle was secured back to its insertion site.

Interrupted figure-of-eight sutures of the myofascial layer are used to provide a watertight closure.

A purse-string suture was used to secure a watertight closure of the posterior rectus sheath.

To evaluate whether bilayer chitosan scaffolding (BChS) can provide a watertight dural closure and permit regeneration by fibroblasts in an experimental in vivo model.

A novel synthetic dural graft material called GORE PRECLUDE® MVP® dura substitute (WL Gore & Associates ,Inc, Flagstaff, Ariz) (henceforth called "MVP") is designed for use both in traditional watertight dural closure and as a dural "underlay" graft in a nonwatertight fashion.

The sutures should not be so snug that the ends of the nerve are strangulated or overlapping, which aims to bring the nerve fascicles into close apposition, not to achieve a watertight epineural closure [29].

A minimally invasive approach ( hemilaminectomy and preservation of the outer dural layer) was used to remove the tumor, while preserving spinal stability and improving the watertight dural closure.

Our recommendation for wound leak prevention is the use of the watertight multilayer-tissue closure technique, with a preferred primary suture of dura mater and the use of muscle, fat, tissue glue, and pressure dressing for several days.