What happens to the polymer crystals and can they cause cancer?
Inion OptimaTM materials are both safe and biocompatible with the human body. They are completely or substantially amorphous – the ideal for biodegradable implants.Crystalline polymers have a regular internal structure and because of the orderly arrangement are slow to degrade. Amorphous polymers have a random structure and are completely & more easily degraded. Semi-crystalline polymers have crystalline and amorphous (random structure) regions. Hydrolysis begins from the amorphous area leaving the more slowly degrading crystalline debris. These crystalline regions (crystals) are extremely small.
