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Horizontal mattress suture

(A) A horizontal mattress suture is sometimes used to close soft tissue wounds. The use of this suture decreases the number of individual sutures that have to be placed; however, more importantly, this suture compresses the wound together slightly and everts the wound edges. (B) A single horizontal mattress suture can be placed across both papillae of the tooth socket and serves in a similar way as do two individual sutures.