Abstract
Reconstituted bovine collagen is an incomplete protein; it will not support bacterial growth and causes minimal local reaction. It has been used in numerous experiments on animals throughout the phylogenetic scale. With these facts, tympanoplasty was performed on 63 persons. Five years of follow-up indicate acceptable tympanic membrane repair with eight failures.
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