MicroAire Surgical Instruments has acquired Endotine, a patented, bioabsorbable, multi-point, soft-tissue fixation systems for facial aesthetic surgery.
Endotine allows surgeons to attach soft tissue to bone or to other using special tines instead of sutures thereby avoiding the tissue-strain associated with sutures.
Endotine devices have the holding power of multiple sutures with more hook-and-loop systems than with traditional needle and thread and the system allows surgeons to adjust the degree of lift during surgery.
The additional strength from Endotine’s multiple fixation-points reduces tissue stretching and potential suture failure in a variety of facial procedures, including brow lifts, midface lifts, face lifts and neck lifts.
Endotine, formerly owned by Coapt Systems, holds tissue securely for three to four months and are then absorbed naturally, typically over a twelve-month period.
MicroAire operations vice president Alan Connor said that many surgeons already know that this is a fantastic product and they’re ensuring that manufacturing and distribution processes remain the same, so that customers and distributors have full access to Endotine products, as they always have.
“The only change will be the addition of the MicroAire logo, and their commitment to support and growing this product line,” Connor said.
MicroAire will continue to use the Coapt name on product packaging and some business documents during the period of product registration and transfer to MicroAire.
Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, MicroAire Surgical Instruments is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of surgical products in three key areas like orthopaedic power instruments, endoscopic soft-tissue release, and aesthetic plastic surgery.