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total thyroidectomy common surgical procedure endocrine surgery however carries potential complications damage recurrent laryngeal nerve permanent hypoparathyroidism bleeding methods prospective study conducted professorial surgical unit jaffna teaching hospital involving consecutive patients underwent total thyroidectomy patients certain conditions excluded study data collected analyzed using ibm spss statistics windows version 25 released 2017 ibm corp armonk new york united states study included 59 patients total thyroidectomy january 2018 january 2021 professorial surgical unit jaffna teaching hospital 45 underwent conventional suture ligation csl 17 sutureless sl technique mean ages 441247 years range 23 68 csl 47631337 years range 27 73 sl operative time 216 032 hours csl 156 049 hours sl intraoperative postoperative bleeding occurred 238 csl cases sl postoperative hypocalcemia 714 csl 588 sl postoperative stays averaged 383 156 days csl 341 162 days sl study found operative time differed significantly suture sl techniques however statistically significant difference postoperative drainage volume postoperative complications sl technique shown superior conventional suture ligation technique total thyroidectomy resulted shorter operative time reduced intraoperative bleeding lower incidence postoperative drainage fewer postoperative voice changes shorter hospital stays therefore sl technique deemed safe efficient effective total thyroidectomy compared conventional suture ligation technique