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SAMUEL FOMON, MD; JULIUS W. BELL, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1966;84(5):514-517.

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IN FACIAL surgery all types of foreign-body implants have up to the present failed to stand the test of time. Months to years after their implantation secondary undesirable changes have occurred with such frequency as to force discontinuation of their use. This hard-won lesson of the past seems to have been forgotten, for one finds in current literature new artificial implants, particularly silicon, embraced with enthusiasm before they have been fully tested. There is, however, a justifiable indication for the use of deep implants in vascular and orthopedic surgery, that is, to restore function and prolong life—for example, in the construction of heart valves, covers for aneurysms, drainage tubes in hydrocephalus, and scleral buckling for detached retinas. Deep implants are less subject to failure in that they are well covered and are rigidly fixed surgically within the tissues. It is hoped that in time, with the multilateral approach of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 30, 1966.

Reprint requests to 307 Second Avenue, New York 10003 (Dr. Fomon).

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