Hydration-Activated Sutures
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These soft tissue repair sutures are designed to maintain a more stable healing environment compared to static sutures currently in the market. Suture’s ability to expand radially and contract axially allows mitigating negative aspects of repair such as laxity, creep, knot slippage, or the potential impact of patient non-compliance. It can maintain tissue bone approximation force set on repair, thus minimizing micromotion and gap formation.
How does it expand?
Well, when it is placed in an aqueous environment, the salt particles within the silicone core elute out, leaving behind a micro-porous structure within the silicone core. These small voids are consequently filled with fluid as the core hydrates, resulting in radial expansion of the suture braid. This radial expansion of the braid causes an axial shortening of the total suture length.
Never will your knot loosen ever!
