Silicone Solutions for Lubrication in Medical Applications

For over 50 years, silicones have been used extensively in the design and manufacture of medical devices intended for short- and long-term human implantation. Silicone’s overwhelming success in the healthcare arena is not only due to its proven bio-inertness, but also to silicone chemistry’s dynamic nature, which yields a diversity of raw materials including fluids, gels, adhesives, dispersions, and elastomers. These two assets explain why many therapies rely heavily on silicones and why some medical devices are fabricated entirely of several types of silicone.