Artelon
The original vision for Artelon was cast by world renown orthopedic surgeon Lars Peterson, MD/PhD. His experience clinically investigating multiple synthetic tendon and ligament devices that failed highlighted key design features necessary for a synthetic material to demonstrate real-world success in connective tissue reconstruction. Working with an elite team of chemists and textile engineers, Dr. Peterson’s vision came to fruition in the form of Artelon’s Dynamic Matrix. Since it’s inception, this technology has delivered on its promise of enhanced biological and mechanical soft tissue reconstruction with over 40,000 implantations worldwide. Today Artelon is headquartered in Marietta, GA, and remains committed to innovations focused on restoring joint stability and kinematics through novel soft tissue reconstructive products and procedures.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
Dynamic Innovation
Following injury, surgical reconstruction of tendons and ligaments often fails to restore nature’s balance of strength and elasticity. This can lead to long recovery times, ongoing pain, loss of function, and long-term issues such as arthritis and deformity. Artelon’s dynamic biomaterial was specifically designed to restore natural strength and elasticity to healing tendons and ligaments - with the goal of getting people back to natural motion, faster and stronger.
Artelon’s strong and elastic technologies provide three key advantages for repair and healing:Doubles the reconstruction strength without altering stiffness (1)
Stretches like natural tendon and ligament
Permits natural motion
Impervious to necrotic breakdown during the early phase of healing
Maintains 90% of its strength and elasticity through the first year of healing (2)Less inflammatory than common biocompatible materials (titanium, polystyrene, and resorbable suture (3)
Matrix promotes load sharing with native tissue which induces biological signaling responsible for tissue regeneration(4)
Integrates and is replaced by regenerated tissue over 4-5 years (2)
