| abstract |
This invention describes self-reinforced, absorbable surgical materials and/or implants and/or their parts and/or components, which can be implanted into the living tissue or on its surface for the purpose of e.g. to repair tissue damages, to join tissues or their parts to each other, to augment tissues or their parts, to separate tissues or their parts from each other and/or from their surroundings, and/or to conduct material between tissues or their parts and/or out of tissues or from the outside into the tissues, for which self-reinforced materials and/or implants or their parts and/or components is characteristic that their reinforcing elements are wound at least partially around some axis penetrating the implant. These implants have better and more isotropic strength properties than the known self-reinforced implants. |