Collagen welding rod material for use in tissue welding
AssigneeInterface Biomedical Laboratories Corp.
InventorPhilip N. Sawyer
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Abstract
A method of joining or reconstructing biological tissue which comprises applying optical energy to the biological tissue while providing a collagen filler material thereto; denaturing the collagen filler material and biological tissue with the optical energy to cause joining of the collagen filler material and biological tissue, thus joining or reconstructing such tissue.
Claims20
A method of joining or reconstructing biological tissue which comprises applying optical or RF energy to the biological tissue while providing a collagen filler material thereto;
- denaturing or melting the collagen filler material and adjacent biological tissue with the applied energy to cause mixing of the denatured or melted collagen filler material and biological tissue, thus joining or reconstructing such tissue.
A method of joining or reconstructing biological tissue which comprises applying optical or RF energy to the biological tissue while providing a collagen filler material thereto;
- applying a biological tissue adhesive to retain the collagen filler material in a desired location with respect to the tissue;
- denaturing or melting the collagen filler material and adjacent biological tissue with the applied energy to cause mixing of the collagen filler material and biological tissue, thus joining or reconstructing such tissue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.