Textured micro implants
OwnerRobert A. Ersek, Arthur A. Beisang +1inventors
InventorsRobert A. Ersek, Arthur A. Beisang, Arthur A. Beisang, III
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Abstract
An improved micro-implantation method and composition for filling depressed scars, unsymmetrical orbital floors, muscle, lip, and other soft tissue defects is provided for use in reconstructive surgery procedures. Textured micro particles having an outside diameter between about 30 microns and 3000 microns are used with an appropriate physiologic vehicle cannula and syringe and/or pressure delivery system into a predetermined locus. The particles provide long-term filling of defects without migration loss.
Claims9
An injectable micro-implantation system for long-term augmentation of soft tissue, comprising in combination:
- biologically compatible micro particles of a relatively resilient, malleable material dispersed in a non-retentive compatible physiological vehicle, the micro particles being further characterized by a rough surface texture having a plurality of surface irregularities forming openings generally at random therein;
- the textured micro particles having an average particle size generally between 30 and 3000 microns with a dimension of the openings formed by the irregularities within the particles being generally in a range between 10 angstroms and 500 microns;
- wherein relative average particle size and average roughness of texture are sufficient in combination to, in an autogenous manner, substantially preclude migration of the particles from an augmentation site, the particles being incorporated in a final implant;
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- wherein the relatively malleable material is poly(dimethylsiloxane) and the physiological vehicle is a hydrogel of polyvinyl pyrrolidone.
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