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OxyBand Dressing Accelerates Wound Healing

TM
Tegaderm Wound Dressing. Tegaderm (3M, St. Paul, MN) is a thin film polyurethane
dressing.

TM
Placebo Wound Dressing. OxyBand Wound Dressings which were fabricated to
contain 21% oxygen in the reservoir to simulate the levels in air served as the placebo

wound dressing.

Clinical Studies

OxyBand v. Tegaderm 7-day Study. Five healthy male and female
TM
TM
volunteers received six standardized laser wounds in identical patterns on the medial
aspect of each upper arm (12 wounds per subject). Identical burns measuring 5 mm

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(total area 19.6 mm ) in diameter were produced using an Erbium 2940 wavelength
laser set at an ablation depth of 50 microns and a thermal coagulation depth at 25
microns. Thirty wounds were treated with OxyBand TM and thirty wounds served as the

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