SummaryOf the 256 patients in this series who underwent anorectal surgery with the closed‐wound technic, 192 had hemorrhoids, 39 had fissures and 25 had simple rectoperineal fistulas. The average time required for healing was 16.29 days, 11.71 days less than the average of 28 days required for anorectal wounds to heal with open‐wound technics. Postoperative pain was less than that which occurs with open‐wound technics.Abscesses occurred in four cases, post‐operative fissures in nine, and in 50, skin redundancies (tags) developed at the level of the cutaneous portion of the suture line. Redundancies did not develop in patients in whom intradermic suturing was used.In patients in this series reduction of the period of convalescence has been significant enough to have social and economic importance.