Method for tissue expansion using pulsatile motion
AssigneeReconstructive Technologies, LLC
InventorsGary B. Greenburg, Antony J. Fields, Alexander Kazaks, Joshua Korman
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Abstract
A method of increasing the rate of expansion of tissue area and volume, either in vivo or in vitro, which comprises preparing a tissue for expansion and subjecting the tissue to stretching forces, wherein the stretching forces are alternatively increased and decreased to provide alternating periods of stretch and relax cycles.
Claims10
A method of increasing the rate of expansion of tissue area and volume for a given expansion force in a post-operative in vivo tissue expansion process after a balloon tissue expander has been surgically and operably inserted adjacent to a previously intact tissue, which comprises:
- subjecting said tissue to stretching forces that alternatively increase and decrease over multiple cycles during a period of tissue expansion, wherein said method comprises at least one cycle per day for a period of at least one day.
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