Why are there no better alternatives for closing large wounds than stitches?

Question

Stitching has been a thing for centuries (millennia?) and yet there still exists no other way to hold together a big wound, why not exactly?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Sometimes you can’t close wounds with stitches. That’s called primary intention.

Secondary intention wound healing is where you leave the wound to heal by itself and try and prevent it from becoming infected. An example of this is a diabetic foot ulcer. You can only clean it, remove dead skin and bandage it.