World first breast implant trial for Australia

After 10 years of fundamental and preclinical research lead by Distinguished Professor Dietmar W  Hutmacher and his interdisciplinary team, a world first breast implant trial in Australia aims to provide a safer alternative to permanent silicone implants. 

The interdisciplinary research team from HBI, BellaSeno, QUT, CBCI (and many other partners), developed a ‘scaffold guided tissue engineering conception’ from bench to bedside’. The implementation trials are currently taking place at Metro North Health in Brisbane! 

Well, put simply, scientists use a cutting-edge 3D printer technology to additive manufacture a biodegradable scaffold that guides the biological regeneration of a woman’s breast. The highly porous scaffold  is made from the same group of medical grade biomaterials used for dissolvable sutures used in millions of patients every day. 

Surgeons explanted a silicon implant which the patient received more than a decade ago and implanted the biodegradable in combination with patients own tissue scaffold in the same surgery session.  The scaffold acts as a structural guiding template for the patient’s own tissue and after 3-4 years after implantation, the scaffold will completely resorbed by natural process similar as by bioresorbable sutures. 

Once dissolved, the patient’s own newly-formed tissue will remain where the scaffold once was. This solution aims to prevent the complications or illnesses that occur as a result of silicone breast implants. 

  

To learn more about this innovation, you can visit the following links: 

http://mforum.com.au/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-04/world-first-breast-implant-reconstruction-trial-in-brisbane/101267356?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=mail&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjGo1nJk09k&t=3s 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMO8SSyDtA&t=3s 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AVFt13Jb9I 

https://10play.com.au/news/queensland/brisbane-news-04-aug-2022/tpv220804azdqb