Table 9.

Degradation in vivo of commercial products based on different tissue sources and differently crosslinked [254, 507]

	Supplier	Crosslinking	Species	Degradation in vivo (weeks)
BioGide	Geistlich Biomaterials		Porcine skin	2–4
BioMend	Sulzer Medica; now Zimmer Biomet	Glutaraldehyde	Bovine tendon	4–8
BioMendExtend	Sulzer Medica; now Zimmer Biomet	Glutaraldehyde	Bovine tendon	18
TutoDent	Tutogen	–	Bovine pericard	8–16
Ossix	Colbar R&D ltd.; now datumdental	Enzymatic/carbohydrate	Bovine tendon	> 24