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Development of a novel anisotropic self-inflating tissue expander: in vivo submucoperiosteal performance in the porcine hard palate.
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BACKGROUND: The advent of self-inflating hydrogel tissue expanders heralded a significant advance in the reconstructive potential of this technique. Their use, however, is limited by their uncontrolled isotropic (i.e., uniform in all directions) expansion. METHODS: Anisotropy (i.e., directional dependence) was achieved by annealing a hydrogel copolymer of poly(methyl methacrylate-co-vinyl pyrrolidone) under a compressive load for a specified time period. The expansion ratio is dictated by the...
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- Journal:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Volume:
- 129
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 79-88
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
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- EISSN:
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1529-4242
- ISSN:
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0032-1052
- Source identifiers:
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221374
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- English
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pubs:221374
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- pubs:221374
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2012
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