DemeTECH Corporation products

Surgical Gut suture is an absorbable sterile surgical suture composed of purified connective tissue (mostly collagen) derived from the serosal layer of beef (bovine) intestines. The chromic gut contains a chromic salt solution to delay absorption. Surgical gut suture meets all requirements established by the United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) for absorbable surgical sutures. Surgical gut (Plain and Chromic) is indicated for use in general, soft tissue approximation and/or ligation, including use in ophthalmic procedures.

Surgical Gut Plain suture is an absorbable sterile surgical suture composed of purified connective tissue (mostly collagen) derived from the serosal layer of beef (bovine) intestines. The chromic gut contains a chromic salt solution to delay absorption. Surgical gut suture meets all requirements established by the United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) for absorbable surgical sutures. Surgical gut (Plain and Chromic) is indicated for use in general, soft tissue approximation and/or ligation, including use in ophthalmic procedures.

DemeTECH’s Polyglactin 910 suture is a synthetic absorbable, sterile, surgical suture composed of copolymers made from 90% glycolide and 10% L-lactide. Polyglactin 910 suture is available in violet or colorless from sizes: USP 8-0 to USP 2. Polyglactin 910 meets all the requirements established by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the European Pharmacopoeia (EP) for Synthetic Absorbable Surgical Sutures (except for an occasional oversize in some gauges).

DemeTECH Nonabsorbable Nylon Suture is a nonabsorbable sterile surgical suture composed of the long-chain aliphatic polymers Nylon 6. The monofilament or multifilament polyamide sutures with attached needles are available in black and blue dyed with FDA listed dye (s). Attached needles types offered include curved and straight needles, with several lengths, gauges and needle shapes and several suture lengths. DemeTECH Nonabsorbable Nylon Suture meets all requirements established by the United States Pharmacopeia for nonabsorbable polyamide surgical sutures.

The DemeLENE MESH™ is a nonabsorbable mesh used to reinforce or bridge inguinal hernia deficiencies to provide extended support during and following wound healing. Animal studies show that implantation of DemeTECH® MESH elicits a minimum to slight inflammatory reaction, which is transient, and is followed by the deposition of a thin fibrous layer of tissue which can grow through the interstices of the mesh, thus incorporating the mesh into adjacent tissue. The mesh remains soft and pliable, and normal wound healing is not noticeably impaired. The material is neither absorbed nor is it subject to degradation or weakening by the action of tissue enzymes.

Suture Material is sterile bone wax, a sterile mixture of White Bees wax, Hard Paraffin and Isopropyl Palmitate, a wax softening agent. DEMEWAX is opaque and has a waxy odor. May be used for the control of bleeding from bone surfaces. DEMEWAX achieves local haemostasis of bone by acting as a mechanical (tamponade) barrier. It does not act bio chemically and is minimally resorbable. DEMEWAX should not be used where rapid osseous regeneration and fusion are desired.