Table 2.

Types of mesh: Biomateria

Type of mesh		Comments
Surgisis (Cook)	Porcine (small intestine submucosa)	Readily colonised by host and forms scaffold for repair and remodelling of ECM. Strong at first but loss of strength with remodelling. Can be used in contaminated wounds
Fortagen (Organogenesis)
Alloderm (Lifecell)	Human acellular dermis
Flex HD (J&J)
AlloMax (Davol)
Collamend (Davol)	Xenogenic acellular dermis (porcine/bovine)
Strattice (LifeCell)
Permacol (TSL)
XenMatriX (Brennen)
SurgiMend (TEI)