<unk> s are surgical<unk> ps of adhesive backed paper tape that are placed across an incision or minor cut. They keep the edges of a wound together as it heals. The<unk>  was invented by the company 3M.<unk> s may be used instead of sutures (stitches) in some injuries, because they lessen scarring and are easier to care for.
The precursor to the<unk> , was Micropore Surgical Tape. Reports of dramatic cases where Micropore Surgical tape alone was used to hold large abdominal incisions together when the skin was too fragile to accommodate sutures and another where one patient's abdominal wall was literally rebuilt with the tape and his life saved when sutures on the patient's compromised skin failed to hold the wound closed prompted 3M to cut Micropore Surgical Tape into one-eighth inch, one-fourth inch and one-half inch<unk> ps,<unk> lise and package it as primary surface closures for incisions.
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