Synthetic Plastic Materials in Surgery

Abstract

THE last thirty years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the plastics industry, and a great variety of new plastic materials have been developed. In the field of medicine they have been used chiefly in the production of surgical and medical diagnostic and therapeutic instruments. A limited application of plastic materials buried within the human body has been found, however, and it is with this use of plastics that this progress report is concerned. No attempt is made to review related medical fields, such as dentistry.The selection of plastic materials for use in the body has been in large . . .