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:

RESTORES - Stability and Natural Motion

Doubles the reconstruction strength without altering stiffness (1)

Stretches like natural tendon and ligament

Permits natural motion

RESISTS - Necrosis

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)

REGENERATES - Natural Tissue Through Load-Sharing

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)

FLEXBAND Plus - Braided Polyblend Nonabsorbable Sutures

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