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Emulsification and Other Physicochemical Changes in Polydimethylsiloxanes in Contact with Model Systems Representing Eyeball Tissue, Human Blood Serum and Collagen

“…When silicone oils were first used as an injection material in eye surgery, they were generally held to be neutral biomaterials that do not undergo changes within the organism; it therefore appeared that they are a good material for use in medicine [5][6][7][8]. It is known, however, that no polymer materials are truly neutral to the body [9], and it turned out that siloxanes can cause various side reactions and can undergo biodegradation and absorption by tissues [1,[10][11][12].…”