BEFORE and AFTER ~ "No Stitch" Pterygium Removal

Pterygium Before Surgery

1 Month After Surgery

6 Months After Surgery

BEFORE and AFTER ~ "No Stitch" Pterygium Removal

Pterygium Before Surgery

1 Day After Surgery (eye is a red at first, this is normal)

1 Month After Surgery (eye is healed and beautiful)

No-stitch surgery is made possible by the use of modern tissue adhesive. Composed of clotting proteins normally found in human blood, tissue adhesive allows the surgeon to secure a conjunctival autograft in seconds rather than minutes. After about one week the tissue adhesive dissolves with no residue, leaving the eye to heal comfortably. Although tissue adhesive is derived from human blood products, no cases of blood borne infection have ever been reported among millions of patients treated with this material in heart and lung surgery.

BEFORE and AFTER ~ "No Stitch" Pterygium Removal

Pterygium Before Surgery

1 Week After Surgery (eye is a little red during healing)

*Fibrin tissue adhesive is a drug approved by the FDA for abdominal surgery. Although its use in eye surgery has not yet been specifically approved by the FDA, our research suggests that this technique is a safe and effective alternative to eye surgery using stitches.