In-the-shell hydration to make implant filler material and prosthesis employing same
OwnerHamik Babianinventor
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Abstract
A non-bleeding surgical breast implant containing mechanically stable 3-dimensional crosslinked hydrogel filler material hydrated directly inside a shell. Discrete polymeric hydrogel units at their smallest dehydrated solid dry state are placed into inconsiderable volume of a completely deflated shell through a sealable hole and subsequently are hydrated to a desired size either prior to or following implantation into a non-bleeding breast implant.
Claims12
A non-bleeding surgically implantable prosthesis to reconstruct and augment natural breast tissue in human being comprising an outer flexible envelope forming a sealed shell container, where the volume within the container is occupied with a filler material made of discrete biocompatible mechanically stable water swollen soft enlarged crosslinked 3-dimensional hydrated polymeric hydrogel units having a network of pores within the units and with no free water in-between the hydrated units.
A method of preparing a surgically implantable prosthesis to reconstruct and augment natural breast tissue in humans, comprising the steps of, placing, discrete mechanically stable 3-dimensional crosslinked polymeric hydrogel units at their smallest dehydrated free flowing solid and dry state into inconsiderable volume of a deflated shell through a sealable hole and subsequently, before or after surgically implanting, water or saline is injected to expand the polymeric hydrogel unit to a larger hydrated size by hydration into discrete mechanically stable 3-dimensional crosslinked soft enlarged and insoluble water swollen polymeric units forming a non-bleeding filler material with no free water in-between the hydrated units.
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