. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: BJOG. 2013 Jan;120(2):233–243. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12085

Table 1.

Relevant textile and biomechanical properties of the three meshes used in this study [48].

Mesh	Company	Stiffness (N/mm)		Density/ Weight (g/m²)	Porosity (%)
Mesh	Company	Uniaxial test	Ball Burst test	Density/ Weight (g/m²)	Porosity (%)
Gynemesh PS	Ethicon	0.29 ± 0.02	27.5 ± 2.7	44	62.1 ± 3.2
UltraPro perpendicular	Ethicon	0.01 ± 0.00^*	23.2 ± 2.8	28	66.7 ± 1.5
UltraProparallel	Ethicon	0.26 ± 0.09^**	23.2 ± 2.8	28	66.7 ± 1.5
SmartMesh	Coloplast	0.18 ± 0.03	11.1 ± 0.9	19	77.9 ± 1.4

highly anisotropic mesh; stiffness measured in direction perpendicular to the blue lines;

^**

stiffness measured in the direction of blue line.