Reply To: Plugs are evil, should be avoided, surgeon invents the “mother of all plugs”

[Herniahelper]

If we know anything at this point it’s that three-dimensional meshes Do not integrate well simply because they do not retain their designed shape. They contract, pull away from the defect, migrate, entangle sensitive structures as they do so, and are highly perceptible to the end user because they become a big lump of scar tissue concentrated in a particular area which push pressure on everything around it.

It’s a failed concept. I think half the reason why people still use this technique is simply because it’s what they were taught in residency. There’s a lot of people out there that were trained on it.

So it’s the thing that they use and they are trying to improve upon it utilizing the same concept.

But it’s a failed concept at this point.