Synthetic bioresorbable polymers engineering

Abstract The main families of synthetic bioresorbable polymers, which find wide medical application as temporary mechanical supports such as sutures, as tissue engineering scaffolds, and as mediators of release rate for the controlled release of drugs are outlined. The physical and chemical mechanisms by which they degrade are discussed and the factors that can affect their rates of degradation are examined. 

In order to understand the resorption behavior of bioresorbable fibers and biotextiles when exposed to various processing parameters, it is necessary to understand the manufacturing processes for biotextiles. The majority of resorbable polymers are synthetic materials that have been engineered chemically to include hydrolysable groups. Hence, to begin with, most of these polymers are in the form... 

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