Claims
- 1. A tissue augmentation composition for augmenting soft tissue, consistently essentially of:
water; and a polysaccharide gel former selected from the group consisting of a cellulose polysaccharide, starch, chitin, chitosan, hyaluronic acid, hydrophobe modified polysaccharide, an alginate, a carrageenan, agar, agarose, an intramolecular complex of a polysaccharide, an oligosaccharide and a macrocylic polysaccharide and combinations thereof.
- 2. The tissue augmentation material of claim 1, wherein the polysaccharide gel former comprises sodium carboxymethylcellulose.
- 3. The tissue augmentation material of claim 1, further including glycerin.
- 4. A method for augmentating soft tissue, comprising the steps of:
providing a syringe including a tissue augmentation material stored therein, the tissue augmentation material consisting essentially of:
water; and a polysaccharide gel former selected from the group consisting of a cellulose polysaccharide, starch, chitin, chitosan, hyaluronic acid, hydrophobe modified polysaccharide, an alginate, a carrageenan, agar, agarose, an intramolecular complex of a polysaccharide, an oligosaccharide and a macrocylic polysaccharide and combinations thereof; and injecting the tissue augmentation material into a soft tissue site.
- 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the soft tissue site is in the facial area.
- 6. The method of claim 4, wherein the polysaccharide gel former comprises sodium carboxymethylcellulose.
- 7. The method of claim 4, wherein the tissue augmentation material further includes glycerin.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application in a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/626,326, filed Jul. 26, 2000, which is a conversion from Provisional Application No. 60/148,590, filed Aug. 13, 1999. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/626,326 is also a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/288,999, filed Aug. 4, 1998 and issued on Aug. 13, 2002 as U.S. Pat. No. 6,432,437, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/538,444, filed on Oct. 3, 1995 and issued on Jul. 13, 1999 as U.S. Pat. No. 5,922,025, which is a division of application Ser. No. 08/159,071, filed Nov. 29, 1993 and issued on Mar. 25, 2003 as U.S. Pat. No. 6,537,574, which is a file wrapper continuation of application Ser. No. 07/999,411, filed Jan. 21, 1993, abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/833,874, filed Feb. 11, 1992, abandoned.
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