What Is Medical Grade Silicone?

Medical grade silicone rubber refers to the silicone rubber used to treat and diagnose medical requirements. It is mainly composed of medical grade silicone rubber, reinforcing filler and vulcanizing agent.

Medical grade silicone rubber is used to treat and diagnose

It is mainly composed of medical grade silicone rubber, reinforcing filler and vulcanizing agent.

Medical grade silicone rubber is made of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and tetramethyltetravinylcyclotetrasiloxane in a clean environment (such as in a 100,000-grade clean-grade plant) under the action of an alkali catalyst. , After destroying the catalyst and removing low-molecular compounds ^[1]

Medical grade silicone rubber has excellent physiological inertness, non-toxic, odorless, non-corrosive, non-irritating, good physiological compatibility with the body, can withstand repeated high-temperature and high-pressure disinfection, and is easy to be molded into pipes and sheets suitable for medical applications. Materials, films and various special shaped products.

It can also make long-term implant products, such as artificial heart valves, artificial meninges, artificial breasts, artificial joints, hydrocephalus drainage devices, and various cosmetic and plastic implants, and products that come into contact with the human body for a short time, such as various drainage tubes, Catheters, dialysis tubes, intubation, etc .; medical devices, such as artificial heart-lung machine pump tubes, membrane-type artificial lungs, etc., and drug release, family planning supplies, etc., are widely used in medical and health services and people's daily life ^[1] .