Implantable and Bioresorbable Materials
New Developments in Implantables
The quicker recovery time experienced by patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and other minimally invasive procedures translates into cost-effectiveness for hospitals and helps to drive demand for new instruments, technologies and materials, particularly thinner and smaller surgical devices and implants. New bioresorbable materials which give structure to implantable devices are absorbed by the body when no longer needed eliminating the need for a second surgery to retrieve the device. Equally important developments are new 'inert' polymers that can be implanted for a very long term without causing reactions by the body.