The New MEDPOR TITAN Cranial Curve and MEDPOR® TITAN™ Cranial Curve – BARRIER™ Implants offer the cranial surgeon an attractive option for cranial/skull base reconstruction, such as the repair of defects in the posterior fossa, mastoid, pterion, and temporal regions.

The MEDPOR TITAN Cranial Curve is a titanium mesh embedded between two sheets of porous, high-density polyethylene, providing the advantages of fibro-vascular integration of the patient's host tissue through the polyethylene sheets. MEDPOR TITAN Cranial Curve – BARRIER is a sheet of titanium mesh with a sheet of porous high-density polyethylene on the convex (skin) side of the mesh and solid high-density polyethylene on the concave (dura) side, allowing for fibrovascular ingrowth only on one side of the implant.¹

Both MEDPOR TITAN Cranial Curve and MEDPOR TITAN cranial Curve BARRIER Implants are preshaped to the general curvature of the cranium and are intended for non-load bearing applications.

• The titanium mesh used with the MEDPOR Biomaterial allows the surgeon to further bend and contour the implant material to the desired shape.
• Titanium is radio-opaque, making the implant visible on radiographs or CT scans².

Catalog No.	Description	A x B x C
#82019	MEDPOR TITAN Cranial Curve	38mm x 48mm x 0.85mm
#82020	MEDPOR TITAN Cranial Curve – BARRIER	38mm x 48mm x 1.0mm

1. Chio JC, Bstandig S, Iwanoto MA, Rubin PA, Shore JW, “Porous Polyethylene Sheet Implant with a Barrier Surface: A Rabbit Study”, Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, 14(1): 32-6 (Jan 1998)

2. Janecka IP, “New Reconstructive Technologies in Skull Base Surgery”, Archotolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Volume 126, pp. 396-401 (March 2000)

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