고어텍스 Gore-Tex

The major progress in biomaterials over recent years have concerned osteosynthesis, reconstruction and creation of the shapes of bones and soft tissues and gluing. In the authors' field of osteosynthesis, "pure" medical titanium, particular…

Gore-Tex soft tissue patches were used in 12 cases for augmentation during rhinoplasty. This synthetic material proved to be completely inert and tissue-compatible. There were no cases of untoward effects such as overlying skin changes, inf…

In summary, autogenous tissue remains the authors' preferred method of augmenting the nasal dorsum. Some authors have tried Supramid mesh, which tends to resorb. Mersilene seems to resist resorption and has been used with notable success. S…

Subcutaneous implantation of Gore-Tex for facial reconstruction allows physicians to recontour the soft tissues of the face and to augment areas that are deficient of subcutaneous tissue for genetic, aging, and traumatic reasons. This artic…

[BACKGROUND] In brow suspension, there is agreement that fresh tissue (autogenous fascia lata or temporalis fascia) provides the best results in terms of low complications and duration of the effect. Yet, the morbidity of fresh tissue harve…

Plastic and reconstructive surgeons have long sought the ideal material to fill and enhance defects of the head and body. Many of the most widely used materials present problems for the surgeon or the patient, so the search continues. For t…

Restoration of a well-defined, youthful-looking, cervicomental angle is not easily achieved. The classic rhytidectomy is now often supplemented by lipectomy and platysmamodifying procedures. Still, irregularities of neck contour are bothers…

[BACKGROUND] Many materials--from bovine and porcine collagen to autologous fat--have been used to augment tissue for wrinkle correction or to correct cosmetic defects. However, none of them has proved completely satisfactory because of hos…

No procedure perfectly restores a face paralyzed by surgical ablation of the facial nerve. Although dynamic reconstructive procedures are preferred for treating patients with complete facial paralysis, various conditions contraindicate thei…

Nine patients underwent major chest wall resection at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia, PA) over a 19-month period. Chest wall reconstruction was performed with an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PTFE) soft tissue patc…

Deep wrinkles and folds usually are not completely or permanently corrected with face lifting, fat or collagen injections, chemical peels, and other known procedures. It is suggested that a permanent implant, well tolerated by human tissues…

The cheek-lip grooves, often referred to as nasolabial folds, are one of the facial characteristics most commonly complained about by patients in all age groups. A variety of methods for correction have been proposed, using implants or auto…

Arterial insufficiency distal to an antecubital access is fortunately an infrequent but disturbing and often debilitating complication resulting in suboptimal access. During an 8 1/2-year period, 335 vascular access procedures were performe…

The author describes his experience over 30 months using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) for the treatment of the nasolabial folds and other wrinkles of the face. The results obtained seem to show that expanded PTFE is a new advance…