Synthetic, dissolving plates ease repairs of nasal septum defects
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 16:14
in Health & Medicine
Attaching cartilage to plates made of the resorbable material polydioxanone appears to facilitate corrective surgery on the nasal septum, the thin cartilage separating the two airways, according to a report in the January/February issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.