Customized Grafts in Reconstructive Surgery

IBI (Industrie Biomediche Insubri) SA is a company set up in 2008 in Ticino (CH) by a group of specialized researchers in regenerative medicine. Before entering the market with a bone substitute to be used for the installation of dental implants, IBI’s specialists had been working for four years on a product capable to answer to their development project of biomaterials of next generation.

The so-called product Smartbone® has proved to be a perfect bone substitute thanks to its innovative composition made of mineral structures, bioactive polymers and cellular nutrients. The company is not only active in the dental field, but it is also successfully carrying out studies in orthopaedics, traumatology and spinal surgery.

Moreover, IBI realized a “tailored” form of Smartbone®, named “on demand”. It consists in a bone graft that starts from TAC data; through this the Ticino’s company is able to answer perfectly to the needs of a single patient.

“We have a patent that allows to cover the 70% of the world population,” explains Federico Fumagalli, Chief Operating Officer of IBI. “Our product is the only one on the market that perfectly reproduces the human bone structure: Smartbone® is not just limited to replace the bone tissue but is made for stimulating the regenerating of the patient’s cells. After some months the patient’s bone is completely regenerated thanks to the support offered by our product that progressively gets reabsorbed, by replacing with a new healthy bone. These results are just one of the example of how Canton Ticino is able to support innovation and high-tech companies”.

This article has been translated from Italian and it was first published on the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore on Friday May 25th, 2018: “Prodotti IBI SA Innesti personalizzati in chirurgia ricostruttiva”