The Editor of Medical Textiles, Geoff Fisher, presents an overview of textiles in healthcare, hygiene and medical applications. Textiles used in the medical and hygiene industries are a significant and increasingly important part of the technical textiles industry. Recent decades have witnessed major developments in medical products, the materials they are made of and the technology used to produce them. The sector is also entering into a new, exciting era of tissue engineering, the controlled delivery of drugs and growth factors via biotextiles, and the use of materials to lessen the incidence, or improve the appearance, of scar tissue.
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