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This suture kit and online training course is designed by an experienced surgeon specifically to teach beginners how to confidently perform 10 suturing techniques. It also contains instruction on surgical knot-tying methods, dealing with suturing complications, how to avoid scars, correcting suturing defects, a case study, and more. The online mastery course was created by Dr. Anton Scheepers, who worked as a maxillo-facial and oral surgeon for 30 years. Includes all necessary materials.

Product Details
This suture kit and online training course is designed by an experienced surgeon specifically to teach beginners how to confidently perform (the how and when of) 10 suturing techniques. It also contains instruction on surgical knot-tying methods, dealing with suturing complications, how to avoid scars, correcting suturing defects, a case study, and more.

Practice and Perfect Your Surgical Skills
Prepare to have a steady hand and a clear mind while confidently suturing wounds. View detailed, step-by-step suturing tutorials, videos, and illustrations.

Be Effective, Efficient, and Confident
Learn the right things in the right way from the start. Avoid making critical, beginner mistakes, such as using a hemostat or mosquito hemostat in place of a needle holder. Get a suture kit with instruments selected by a surgeon. Learn the right things with the right instruments, and ensure high marks for objective skills assessments (OSATS). Maximize the speed at which you build suturing muscle memory with a comprehensive suturing course that goes far beyond basic suturing technique videos, and avoid a long list of mistakes made by most people when learning how to suture wounds.

Everything You Need Is Included
This suture kit includes all materials needed: quality suturing instruments, suture practice pad (with wound types commonly seen in the emergency room), 12 sachets of suturing material (30" threads each, size 2–0 or 3–0, with 3/8 circle, reverse-cutting needles), a convenient carrying case that fits everything, and an online mastery course by Dr. Anton Scheepers, who worked as a maxillo-facial and oral surgeon for 30 years.

Online Training Designed by an Experienced Surgeon
Great for anyone new to suturing. The course is activated by visiting academy.theapprenticedoctor.com.

Suturing techniques covered:

• Subcutaneous
• Interrupted and interrupted with buried knots
• Continuous (running)
• Continuous interlocking
• Vertical mattress
• Horizontal mattress
• "Far-and-near"
• Figure of eight
• Subcuticular
• Purse-string

Knot-tying tutorials:

• The critically important difference between a granny's knot and a square knot
• How to make a square knot: one-hand tie, two-hand tie, and an instrument tie
• How to make a surgeon's knot: one-hand tie and instrument tie
• And many other topics, including how to correctly hold suturing instruments, avoid scars, correcting a "dog's ear" effect, wound dehiscence, case studies, and more