There are absorbable sutures, such as the surgical gut and fascia lata. Then there are non-absorbable sutures, such as silk, cotton, wire, dacron, linen, silver wire clips, silkworm gut, mesh, and...
It depends on the age of the child, if they know how to behave around dogs (e.g., don't look them face to face eye to eye, don't poke them with sticks, don't pull their tails or ears, etc.), and the...