About Collagen
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body. It has a long history of safe and effective use as a biomaterial in medical technology and offers a series of advantages over synthetic biomaterials:
- Collagen is fully biodegradable and resorbable via natural pathways.
- Collagen plays an integral role in the repair and replacement of both soft and hard tissue by providing an extracellular scaffold, stimulating certain growth factors, and propagating tissue granulation.
- Collagen implants and dressings are specifically used to accelerate the natural process of wound healing.
- Collagen is a natural hemostat and a wide variety of collagen-based products are used in surgery and dentistry to control excessive bleeding or hemorrhage.
Innocoll extracts and purifies collagen from either bovine or equine Achilles tendons using a proprietary process which preserves the tertiary "triple-helix" molecular structure of Type-1 collagen in the form of fibrils.
This so-called fibrillar collagen (also referred to as "insoluble" collagen) retains its natural physiological functions, namely the wound healing and hemostatic properties.