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Woven polyester fiber implants are valued because of their porous properties which allow smooth sailing with craniofacial implants.
A certain material that I havent seen talked about here is Mersilene Mesh.
This is an old 14 year documentation of this implant material showing only an .8 percent infection rate!
An issue with this material is that it can't be used in every part of the face,
Common anatomical areas where its used are (or were previously used as stated later in the thread
):
-Mandible
-Chin
-Supraorbitals (although It wasnt that good for supras aesthetically)
"Mersiline Mesh is rigid relative to natural facial tissues, so it doesn’t conform well to delicate, complex curves of the midface"
IMO this material would seem very suitable for chin augmentation so I'm really not sure why its not commonly used.
Although your bones dont grow into the implant your soft tissue grows into the actual implant because its fibrous. This makes it suitable for to withstand the physiologic load of masticatory and facial mimetic forces.
The price of using the implants with this material is slightly cheaper than that of titanium or polypropelene polyester
My main question is why did surgeons drop using this when it had very good porous properties and low infection rates and good qualites in general
A certain material that I havent seen talked about here is Mersilene Mesh.
This is an old 14 year documentation of this implant material showing only an .8 percent infection rate!
An issue with this material is that it can't be used in every part of the face,
Common anatomical areas where its used are (or were previously used as stated later in the thread
-Mandible
-Chin
-Supraorbitals (although It wasnt that good for supras aesthetically)
"Mersiline Mesh is rigid relative to natural facial tissues, so it doesn’t conform well to delicate, complex curves of the midface"
IMO this material would seem very suitable for chin augmentation so I'm really not sure why its not commonly used.
Although your bones dont grow into the implant your soft tissue grows into the actual implant because its fibrous. This makes it suitable for to withstand the physiologic load of masticatory and facial mimetic forces.
The price of using the implants with this material is slightly cheaper than that of titanium or polypropelene polyester
Unfortunately there's no surgeons that use this material anymore (well only offbrand/AFAIK there isnt)
They all switched to medpor/peek/titanium etc
They all switched to medpor/peek/titanium etc
My main question is why did surgeons drop using this when it had very good porous properties and low infection rates and good qualites in general
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