Prosthesis (i.e. – artificial body members) – parts thereof – or ai – Ear or nose prosthesis
Patent
1990-10-22
1991-07-09
Green, Randall L.
Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or ai
Ear or nose prosthesis
D24155, A61F 218
Patent
active
050302329
ABSTRACT:
The nasal implant of this invention is characterized by a composition of hard-grade silicone fashioned into a special shape. One variation in the composition material is to use soft silicone only for the tip in order to overcome the fear of some surgeons to use hard silicone in this particular area.
A special and improved shape of the implant, in the form of a modified hourglass, provides a well rounded and larger tip portion thanb that of the prior art. The supra-tip of this improved implant shows a depression dorsally, is less wide than the rest of the implant and has a pronounced slope laterally. These features, particularly at the supra-tip region avoid the unnatural effects of the prior art devices. Moreover this implant has a variable thickness form upper end to tip -that is it starts thin, increases in thickness and then goes thinner again- whereas the prior art starts thin and continually increases throughout.
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"Porex Medical Profile: Silicon Facial Implants", Porex Medical a division of Porex Technologies Corp. of Georgia, p. 2.
Green Randall L.
Iantorno Stephanie L.
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