Medical Grade Silicone

The medical-silicone industry is quite modern. Silicone has been being used in medicine since the 1960s. Bio Medical Grade Liquid Silicone Rubber is made up of the following: two-part (1:1 by weight), platinum-catalyzed liquid silicone rubbers; Typical Applications include injection molding of precision and intricate parts of medical devices (O-rings, stoppers and closures) and mesh coating (DCH, 2007). There are several subgrades of silicone rubber used for other medical applications. Devices made of silicone have many rare properties which are very useful in medicine, but its biocompatibility is most likely the most important of all. Silicone devices have exhibited super-ordinate compatibility with human tissue and fluids and have an exceedingly thin tissue when compared with other elastomers or implanted devices. We also have to remember that silicone and silicone devices very rarely incur any kind of allergic reaction. There are many products made entirely of silicone or contains silicone rubber such as breast implants, catheters (urology, biosensing and other), eternal feeding tubes, silicone sheeting and blocks (implanted in augment bones), anaesthetic machine circuits, peristaltic, suction, aspirating pumps, hearing aids, dental dams, condoms, menstrual cups, gloves sterilization trays, syringes and many others.

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