Also, you can always remove them yourself. I always do if there is no sign of infection or swelling and everything looks good and healed. There really is nothing to it.


Clean the sutures with alchohol.

Clean tweezers and tiny sewing scissors with alchohol.

Grip the knot of the suture with a pair of tweezers and gently lift it up from the skin.

Slide tip of one scissor blade beneath suture and clip only one side of suture as close to the skin.

Gently pull the snipped suture with the tweezers to pull it from under the skin and remove it.

Remove every other suture. If everything still looks good, go ahead and remove the rest. If there are three, I always remove the center one first.

Clean the area with alcohol again and then apply some vitamin E oil.