Soft tissue response to silicones

S. E. Gabriel

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3305-1_34

Soft tissue response to silicones

S. E. Gabriel

Quantitative Health Sciences

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Although the term ’silicone’ refers to a group of organic silicone compounds, the one most commonly used in medicine is composed of a polymer known as dimethypolysiloxane (DMPS). In silicone gel the polymer is cross-linked; the more cross-linking, the more solid is the gel. Liquid silicone consists of glucose-linked DMPS polymer chains. Silicones first became commercially available in 1943, with the first subdermal implantation of silicone occurring in the late 1940s [1-3]. Silicones have since been developed for a wide variety of medical applications, most notably in joint and breast prostheses.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbook of Biomaterial Properties, Second Edition
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	631-644
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781493933051
ISBN (Print)	9781493933037
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3305-1_34
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

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Engineering(all)
Materials Science(all)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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