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FDA advisory offers mixed endorsement for class III designation for tissue expanders

Nov. 4, 2022
By Mark McCarty
The U.S. FDA held a two-day advisory hearing in the last week of October 2022 to address some lingering regulatory questions, including the question of whether therapeutic nail prostheses should be a class I device. The potentially more dramatic shift, however, would be the application of a class III risk designation to tissue expanders used in breast surgery.
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