| Excess fat, muscle, and skin are then trimmed away before the incision is closed with fine sutures. |
| The unfused interfrontal, coronal, and sagittal sutures are indicated in the skull of a wild-type littermate. |
| To correct brachycephaly both fused sutures are removed and the skull is narrowed and lengthened. |
| Among the multifilament nonabsorbable sutures, granulomas are more commonly seen in response to polyester. |
| These sutures were then attached to a load cell mounted on a tensioning jig. |
| We did not include unsexed adults and did not measure skull length of subadult individuals with unfused cranial sutures. |
