A Universal Type Integrated Implant

Uso do implante esférico Medpor ™: análise de 61 cirurgias orbitárias

“…(3) . Cutler utilizou um tipo de implante parcialmente integrável com melhor resultado cosmético e melhor motilidade da pró-tese, porém os casos de infecção e extrusão continuavam sendo um problema (4) . A esfera de Mulles continuou sendo a mais aceita como implante orbitário, apesar de suas limitações, até 1989, quando Perry introduziu o implante orbitário biointegrável utilizando a hidroxiapatita coralina, que já vinha sendo empregada em cirurgias ortopédicas e maxilo-faciais como enxerto ósseo.…”

The All-Tantalum Culter Universal Integrated Implant : A Modified Technique for its Introduction: Case Reports

“…The Cutler ring implant (Cutler, 1947), of which a limited number has been used in Great Britain, has been followed by the " universal " type, a plastic ball of which the anterior convex surface is covered with a fine mesh of tantalum wire (Cutler, 1949). There is now in use in Great Britain an all-tantalum implant, in which the solid plastic ball has been replaced by a hollow tantalum shell.…”

“…The implant is introduced through a radial incision in the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule, and is then sutured to the scleral ring (Cutler, 1947).…”

“…Having used the all-tantalum implant on two or three occasions, and having observed that there is a tendency for the structures attached to the tantalum wire slightly to retract, I devised the method about to be described, in which the scleral ring of the JAMlES R. HUDSON original operation as described by- Cutler (1947) is replaced by a ring of muscular tissue. This is designed to make it physically difficult for the implant to be extruded.…”