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.