Surgical Sutures MarketSize and Trends

Increasing accidents and surgeries expected to fuel the surgical suture market

According to World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017, yearly around 1.25 million people die and more than 20 to 50 million people experience severe injuries, due to road traffic crash. Furthermore, surgical sutures are extremely essential for the closure of wounds and injuries occurred in accidents. With the increase in the number of accidents, wherein the use of surgical sutures are high, thus lead to significant growth of surgical sutures market.

According to the annual plastic surgery procedural statistics by American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), there were 15.9 million surgical and minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures performed in the United States in 2015, 2.0% increase over 2014. The increasing trend of cosmetic and plastic surgery are also expected to drive the surgical suture market in coming years.