Healthcare Professionals
HC Biologics provides top quality allograft, tissue based medical devices as well as implants & instruments for an extensive range of clinical applications, including but not limited to:
- Boosting fusion in spine surgery
- Total knee replacement surgery
- Total hip replacement surgery
- Sports medicine indications, including ACL repair
- Improving breast reconstruction post mastectomy for breast cancer patients
- Correcting periodontal defects, providing superb grafting for implant placement
- Stimulation of bone regeneration in foot and ankle surgery
- Promotion of skull healing following neurosurgery
- Enhancing wound repair in burn victims
- Subchondral bone defect repair in knee and other joint surgeries
Quick facts with timeline on biologics industry:
- The first skin allograft was performed in 1908 by Jacques Louis Reverdin of Sweden (Source: The Transplant Network)
- The first successful kidney transplant took place in 1954 (Source: NIH)
- Tissue donors have been numbered at 30,000 annually (Source: DSIDS)
- An estimated 60,000-75,000 ACL reconstructions are performed annually (Source: Medscape)
- Established in 1949, the U.S. Navy Tissue Bank was the first tissue bank in the United States for bone and tissue processing and storage (Source: MTF)
- The American Association of Tissue Banks was formed in 1976 to “develop standards, promote ethics and increase donations.” (Source: AATB)
- In 1999, Wake Forest researchers successfully 3D printed the scaffold of a human bladder to grow working organs (Source: How Stuff Works)
- The regenerative medicine industry generated more than a billion dollars in revenue for the first time in 2013 (Source: Alliance for Regenerative Medicine)
- Companies involved in regenerative therapies raised $10.8 billion in 2015, an increase of more than 100% from the previous year (Source: Alliance for Regenerative Medicine)