Lio-cartilage

Lyocartilage (also known as lyocartilage) transforms into the patient's own cartilage, so it can be characterized as a "biological miracle". Lyocartilage was developed and experimentally investigated by Prof. Sailer at the Royal College of Surgeons in England during 1976/77. And with resounding success, hundreds of thousands of implantations with lyocartilage have been successfully performed worldwide since then.

What is lyophilized cartilage?

Lyophilized cartilage is freeze-dried cartilage from the rib bones of organ donors. It is an ideal substitute for bone tissue. Lyophilized cartilage has no antigenicity, which means it will not be rejected by the body.

It shows the lowest morbidity rate of all bone substitutes and is implanted into the patient's own bone, so it can be called a "biological miracle". Prof. Sailer uses it in reconstructive craniofacial surgery for pathological and aesthetic problems.

Hundreds of thousands of implantations of lyophilized cartilage have been used in the hospital setting at the University Hospital of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, where Professor Sailer was Clinical Director, as well as many other university hospitals and institutes around the world.

The advantage of lyophilized cartilage is that there is no need to remove the patient's own material, such as cartilage or bone, thus there are no possible secondary complications after surgery and the operation time is shortened.

Lyophilized cartilage can also be used in an infected area, it is resistant to infection, easy to use and, for example, is often used in reconstruction for children in greater quantities than the patient's own cartilage-bone material.

Where lyo-cartilage is used

Professor Sailer most often uses lyophilized cartilage in aesthetic surgery: in zygomatic bone, zygomatic arch and in the enlargement of the mid-face, nose, chin augmentation, removal of nasolabial folds and lip chin folds.

In reconstructive craniofacial surgery, the following areas are distinguished:

• reconstruction of the bones of the cranial vault,
• the frontal region,
• reconstruction of the walls of the eye socket,
• correction of the nostrils,
• filling bone cysts and chronically infected sinuses,
• overcoming the harelip defect
• correction of the wolf's mouth and much more.

Prof. Sailer has written more than 30 scientific articles about this material and its applications and published a monograph with the title: "Transplantation of lyophilized cartilage tissue in maxillofacial surgery, experimental basis and clinical success".