Custom-designed biomedical textile scaffolds from Secant Medical™ can advance cutting-edge tissue regeneration capabilities. Scientific advances in biomedical textiles and an ever-expanding array of resorbable biomedical textile materials continue to create new opportunities for medical device designers in tissue engineering and fabrication. Textiles offer choice and flexibility in device design because of their varying porosity characteristics that are designed to illicit tissue ingrowth in certain areas while serving as a tissue barrier in others to provide the necessary short-term tissue support required for long-term tissue regeneration.

Biomedical textiles formed by woven, knitted and braided processes offer an unmatched opportunity for cellular differentiation—a multi-level, multi-material and varied density tissue scaffold that responds in a controlled and predictable manner to allow the body to rebuild tissue while maintaining mechanical integrity. Devices developed with composite fabrics constructed of synthetic fabric and xenographic or allogenic materials provide a porous foundation to facilitate soft tissue repair for tendons, ligaments, or the meniscus.

Absorbable textile scaffolds also play an integral part in medical device design by producing composite fabric structures with the required control of resorption kinetics to affect a full biologic repair in spinal fusion, hernia repair and vascular graft treatments.

Secant Medical advances the fields of tissue regeneration and engineering by providing expert design services for quality implantable medical textiles that combined with emerging technologies like stem cell tissue and collagen fiber engineering provide limitless opportunities in medical device —a fully biologic textile to speed patient recovery time and improve treatment effectiveness.

Tissue engineering challenges solved with biomedical textiles

In orthopedics, tissue engineering is challenged by the driving need for more complex scaffolds, the delivery of the biomaterials to the site of implantation and engineering a specific biologic response from the body to accept the implantable materials. Containment and localization of bone morphogenic proteins (BMP), demineralized bone matrices (DBM), and other biologics continue to challenge the device engineer in employing biomaterials that work in concert with these orthobiologic materials as a "composite" component of the device design.

For all specialized biologic fields, biomedical textiles from Secant Medical are designed and customized to address all these requirements for scaffolds needed in tissue engineering. Critical factors such as porosity, flexibility, controlled resorption kinetics and the versatility of like absorbable polymers are taken into consideration when we collaborate with your engineering team to develop the biomedical textile that best meets your specific device needs.

Engineering expertise in biomedical textiles development

We employ our industry experience in scaffold development with our in-depth knowledge of the impact of material selection on device design and function to help you in optimizing your development process and time in meeting the challenges of your complex designs.

By employing our collaborative approach to design and development, we can assist medical device manufacturers to innovate from design to device with precision, efficiency, quality, and flexibility.

Learn more about Secant Medical's biomedical textile engineering services for tissue regeneration:

• Textile Science
• Implantable Materials
• Quality Assurance
• Advanced Manufacturing

• Biomaterials Research
• Custom Designs
• Prototype Structures
• Engineer Collaboration

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