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Implantable prosthetic devices

  • US 4,963,150 A
  • Filed: 03/06/1989
  • Issued: 10/16/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1984
  • Status: Expired
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1. In an implantable prosthetic device for use in a human body including a flexible container and a soft gel or liquid filling the flexible container;

  • the improvement which comprises providing an outer plastic covering made of rough textured silicone and bonded to the flexible container, said outer plastic convering having a rough textured external surface thereby providing a multiplicity of pores and/or interstices, said outer plastic covering encases the flexible container in order to prevent the contraction of scar tissue around the prosthetic device from pulling the prosthetic device into a hard, spherical shape.

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