Bionx Implants, Oy

Linvatec Biomaterials Oy

Linvatec Biomaterial Oy

Tero V&auml;limaa

Pertti T&ouml;rm&auml;l&auml;

Timo Pohjonen

James S Hogan

Martti Talja

Henna Niiranen

Penti Rokkanen

A biodegradable implant for installation in living tissue having a first section made from a first bioabsorbable material and a second section made from a second bioabsorbable material, wherein the first and second sections are connected, the first section having a first rate of degradation in living tissue and a first rate of expansion in living tissue and the second section having a second rate of degradation in living tissue and a second rate of expansion in living tissue.

Biodegradable surgical implants

A device for inserting a stent in a body cavity, particularly useful for inserting a stent into a human male urethra to treat prostatic hyperplasia, whereby such device has an elongated member for removably receiving a stent and means capable of protruding from the member to either locate an obstruction, such as the sphincter muscle, in the body cavity or to prevent the stent from sliding off of the member, or both.

Urethral stent delivery system

A surgical implant comprising biodegradable polymer interspersed with ceramic particulate that is visible to radioscopy.

Surgical implant

The Applicants' invention is a bioactive, biocompatible, bioabsorbable surgical composite that is fabricated bioabsorbable polymers, copolymers or polymer alloys that are self-reinforced and contain ceramic particles or reinforcement fibers, and also can be porous. The composite of the invention can be formed into devices like pins, screws, plates, tacks, bolts, intramedullary nails, suture anchors, staples, and many other devices, all of which are useful in bone-to-bone, soft tissue-to-bone or soft tissue-to-soft tissue fixation or in fixation of bioabsorbable and/or biostable implants in or on bone or soft tissue.

Bioactive, bioabsorbable surgical composite material

The invention relates to a biodegradable implant or the like manufactured of polymer-based material and intended to be installed in tissue conditions. In the macroscopic structure of the implant two or several zones are created in a manner that the biodegradable polymer-based material has in different zones a different detaching time from the macroscopic structure under tissue conditions.

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Tampere, Finland

Tero Välimaa

Growing community of inventors

Tampere, Finland

Tero V&auml;limaa

Tero Välimaa