Silk sutures and their production facilities in turkey

Medical textiles are one of the fast developing areas in technical textiles. sutures,especially,have very important market share in the medical textiles. silk is the indispensable suture material due to its strength,fineness,flexibility,biocompatibility,utilization and knot easiness. the silk sutures are still imported in turkey in spite of new attempts to start production of high quality cocoons and raw silk obtained from the domestic cocoons. it is very important to produce silk sutures that have a significant market share in turkey,both to diversify the usage areas of silk and to stop external dependence for usage of silk suture. in this study,the production process of silk sutures was included and the domestic production facilities were discussed.