Mammary Prosthesis
date: label: Date made
content: 80s
name: label: maker
content: Bioplasty
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the cardboard package reads in part “MISTITM Gel-Filled / Textured Mammary / Prosthesis” and “Manufactured in USA by / Biomanufacturing Incorporated / 2593 North Fairview Avenue / Saint Paul, Minnesota 55113 / FOR / Bioplasty, Incorporated. . .” and “PAT. #4,955,909.” MISTI was an acronym for Molecular Impact Surface Textured Implants. Robert A. Ersek was a plastic surgeon in Austen, Tx. Arthur A. Beisang, Jr. (1932-2018) was a medical entrepreneur in Minneapolis who resigned from the firm in early 1992, shortly after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a moratorium on the use of silicone implants.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert A. Ersek, Arthur A. Beisang, and Arthur A. Beisang III, “Textured Silicone Implant Prosthesis,” U.S. Patent 4,955,909 (Sept. 11, 1990), assigned to Bioplasty, Inc.
label: Description
content: “Implant Maker Loses Its Chief,” New York Times (Feb. 26, 1992), p. D3.
label: Description
content: Robert A. Ersek, “BioplastiqueTM: A new biphasic polymer for minimally invasive injection implantation,” Asethetic Plastic Surgery 16 (1992): 59-65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Arthur A. Ciarkowski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0337.06
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0337.06
label: accession number
content: 2003.0337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breast Implant
label: Object Name
content: implant, mammary
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.5 cm x 19.5 cm x 7 cm; 7 11/16 in x 7 11/16 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 8 in x 7 5/8 in; 6.985 cm x 20.32 cm x 19.3675 cm