Talk:Wound closure strip

Move

I wonder whether this should be moved to butterfly stitches and reworked as a generic topic rather than a brand name. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:33, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Done. I used a different generic term, "butterfly closure", but noted "butterfly stitch" as an alternative name. Jruderman (talk) 16:05, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Image

A wound held closed with a butterfly closure.

I always thought that a butterfly closure was more like this, different from Steri-Strip, even if used for similar purposes. The butterfly closures I've seen are shaped like butterflies (some more obviously so than these), and have an non-adhesive bit in the center, like a bandaid(they are mentioned in that article). Am I out-of-date? HLHJ (talk) 17:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Agree...Steri-Strips are *not* butterfly stitches at all. There is no non-adhesive area, nor are they hourglass-shaped, which gave butterfly stitches their name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.4.62.3 (talk) 16:36, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Move again

I am going to rename this article to "Wound closure strip", as it seems to be discussing the form of surgical tape used to hold wounds together. Butterfly closures are a type of adhesive bandage with a similar function but different design. I think they are sufficiently covered in Adhesive bandage § Variants.

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  Butterfly closures
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  Wound closure strips

This will also involve some redirect/link cleanup. Augurar (talk) 08:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I think Butterfly closures should be covered here, not at adhesive bandage. Adhesive bandages have a dresssing pad on them to cover the entire wound and provide padding and absorbtion kf fluids, which butterfly closures do not. That lack of pad makes butterfly closures not really fall into the category of adhesive bandages. oknazevad (talk) 03:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)