Patent ID: 9532867
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61L,B29C,B29L,D04H

Claim:
1. An absorbable implant for plastic surgery procedures comprising a porous biodegradable polymeric scaffold formed into an anatomical shape, two-dimensional shape, three-dimensional shape, and/or asymmetric shapes, minimizing any buckling or bunching of the implant upon placement, with one or more of the following properties: (a) the implant has a suture pullout strength (peak load (kg) at which the implant fails to retain a suture) of the absorbable implant is greater than 10 N; (b) the scaffold can support a pressure of at least 0.1 kPa; (c) the implant can withstand a load of at least 5 N; (d) an average pore diameter of at least 10 μm; (e) the implant is compliant and the bending stiffness of the scaffold is less than 100 gram cm (100 Taber Stiffness Units); and (f) the scaffold cannot stretch more than 30% of its original length.