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Designed to disappear — and leave you stronger

BD^® Phasix™ Mesh gradually absorbs over time as your body heals, helping to build your tissue stronger.

How Phasix™ works

Your repair. Your tissue. Your recovery.

Most hernia repairs use permanent mesh to reinforce weakened tissue. With Phasix™, the mesh is absorbable. That means the mesh is designed to go away and leave behind only your own regenerated tissue — without a permanent implant.

Absorbs in approximately 18 months
Helps provide structural support to the repair during the critical healing phase
Designed to reduce the risk of infection and inflammation
Evaluated in over 100 clinical studies across a range of patients
The Phasix™ product line supports a variety of hernia repair types

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What typically happens after surgery with Phasix™ Mesh*

Surgery Day

Repair and reinforcement

Your surgeon places Phasix™ at the hernia site. The mesh is designed to reinforce the repair and provide support to the weakened area.
First Weeks

Healing begins

After surgery, your doctor will likely set out a recovery plan for you to follow so that the body can start to heal around the mesh. This often includes rest, gentle movement, and check-ins with your care team. Always follow your doctor's instructions.
4–6 Weeks

Tissue grows stronger

Phasix™ is designed to allow the body's own tissue to grow into the mesh scaffold, and take on the structural role. Most patients are allowed to return to full activity around 6 weeks. Your doctor will provide guidance on what activities are safe to return to and when.
~18 Months

The mesh is gone

By approximately 18 months, Phasix™ Mesh is typically fully absorbed. What remains is the body's own regenerated tissue.

Why Phasix™

What sets Phasix™ Mesh apart

A reliable alternative

Phasix™ Mesh is there when you need it, gone once you don't. A reliable alternative to permanent mesh, shown to reduce the risk of future hernia recurrences.
Backed by research

Phasix™ Mesh is the most clinically studied biobsorbable mesh on the market and has shown comparable outcomes to synthetic mesh — but avoids permanent material.
Works with your body

Phasix™ Mesh is made from a special absorbable material (P4HB) that helps support your body's healing process, strengthen tissue, and reduce inflammation over time.

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*Individual recovery timelines vary. Always follow your surgeon's specific post-operative guidance. Resorption timeline based on published clinical and preclinical data; verify against current IFU.

Your doctor will give you a patient implant card for the Phasix™ Mesh. Please keep this card somewhere safe and easy to find. The mesh implant information may be helpful for your future medical care.

INDICATIONS: Phasix™ Mesh is used to reinforce (support) soft tissue, where weakness exists, in patients having surgery on their belly, to change the way their body looks or works, or for rebuilding their tissue (otherwise known as abdominal, plastic, and reconstructive surgery). For example, Phasix™ Mesh could be used for ventral (near your belly) hernia repair or to help support your surgical wound.

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IMPLANT MATERIAL: Phasix™ Mesh is made of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (100%), that goes away slowly over time and is made from natural materials.

PURPOSE: Phasix™ Mesh is a sterile (germ-free) implant. It is a mesh implant used to fix soft tissue defects, like hernias or damage to the soft parts of your belly from trauma, illness, or prior surgeries, in adults.

WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS: The safety and usefulness of Phasix™ Mesh has not been evaluated in:

Pregnant or breastfeeding women
Infants or children
Neurologic procedures or tissues (brain, spinal cord, and nerves)
Cardiovascular tissue (heart or blood vessels)
Breast reconstructive surgeries

The safety and effectiveness of Phasix™ Mesh in the proximity of (near) existing or excised (removed) cancer have not been established.

POTENTIAL ADVERSE REACTIONS (UNFAVORABLE):

Adhesions: Adhesions form when internal scar tissue joins tissues together that are not usually joined. Adhesions to the bowel (the intestine) may lead to bowel obstruction (blockage). This can cause the need for multiple invasive procedures, prolonged hospitalization, long-term nursing care, intravenous nutrition, and/or staged surgery to fix the bowel.
Allergic reaction: If you are allergic to tetracycline hydrochloride or kanamycin sulfate (antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections), please tell your doctor. An allergic reaction to the mesh may be difficult to diagnose after surgery due to distracting pain, fever, and use of sedatives and narcotics. These symptoms, if not recognized as an allergic reaction, may result in additional diagnostic and invasive procedures, which may include the need for reoperation or explanting (removing) the mesh.
Mesh erosion: Erosion is the mesh rubbing against nearby soft tissue, and may result in the need for multiple invasive procedures, prolonged hospitalization, long-term nursing care, intravenous nutrition, and/or staged surgery to fix the bowel (or another organ). This may be followed by a hernia repair.
Fistula formation: A fistula is an abnormal connection or passageway between an organ, vessel, or tissue. Fistula formation may result in the need for multiple invasive procedures, prolonged hospitalization, long-term nursing care, intravenous nutrition, and/or staged surgery to address the bowel (or another organ). This may be followed by a hernia repair.
Hematoma: An accumulation of blood.
Hemorrhage: Loss of blood.
Surgical site infection: An infection localized at the surgical site may require oral or intravenous antibiotics and/or may result in additional diagnostic and invasive procedures, including the chance for reoperation and/or mesh removal.
Inflammation: Swelling, redness, heat, and/or pain produced in an area of your surgery.
Mesh extrusion: Mesh poking through the skin.
Mesh migration: Mesh moves from where your doctor placed it during surgery.
Pain: There is a possibility of pain which may affect quality of life and everyday functions, such as driving, walking up the stairs, and/or dressing oneself. Pain may continue and may require a second operation to remove the mesh.
Recurrence: Return or reappearance of your hernia or soft tissue defect.
Reoperation: If you require another operation in your belly before the Phasix™ Mesh has gone away, the mesh may need to be removed and may make that operation last longer.
Seroma: An accumulation and pocket of clear fluid. This may result in unscheduled drainage or reoperation.
Wound dehiscence: Your skin breaks open along the line where your belly was sewn closed after surgery. This may lead to exposure of the mesh to the open air, which may result in additional complications including an unscheduled reoperation.