| abstract |
An implantable tissue support structure for supporting tissue, the tissue support structure comprising a plurality of non-braided monofilament thread sections, the non-braided monofilament thread sections defining a surface, the tissue support structure inducing substantially no foreign body reaction when supporting the tissue other than the reaction associated with the healing of tissue being in contact with a single non-braided monofilament thread and allowing for substantially unimpeded ingrowth of healing tissue, by maintaining the number of monofilament thread intersections to be smaller than 10,000 intersections per one-hundred square centimeters, the thread intersection being defined as the crossing of two of the thread sections resulting from at least one of braiding, weaving, entangling, intertwining and affixing the thread sections. |