Biomask Improves Facial Burn Treatment Results for Soldiers

A team of experts and engineers is working with surgeons to step aside to develop masks that may heal the soldiers’ burnt skins. According to Wired magazine, Bio mask will be the how in 2012 military soldiers will treat their burn faces. This Bio mask will have the regenerative elixir, actuators, and sensors to use for several months, having stem cells to help recover the facial health tissues.

According to US military figures, there were more than 85 percent injuries during the war which damaged the facial tissues of military soldiers and Pentagon has achieved success to produce medicines from specialists of Northwestern University, along with the army institute of Surgical research and Brooklyn medical research center.

According to a researcher and project leader at UT Arlington, Eileen Moss, the mask is currently in its initial phases of development but the team has currently seen how this will look and work and it will give soldiers complete recovery of their phases just before the injury they had. This Bio mask is a powerful health gadget that will bring revolution in medical fast treatment. This is a collaboration project in which researchers are seeking to improve burn treatment outcomes with modern electronic and refrigerating medicines for facial tissue recovery.

There are basically two layers of this Bio mask; Upper layer is consisting of a hard shell that will project the user’s face and storing the electronic components. The second layer is a polymer mask which will fit around the facial skin because polymer works as a seal around the facial injured cells and compress them to prevent the formation of scars

There are many actuators and sensors which will be embedded with this polymer shell to check the process of healing and provide accurate data to the medical operating physicians. Although this mask will itself act as a treatment of damaged cells, the Bio mask will bring it a step forward to feature micro tubes network, while delivering the painkillers and antibiotics to enter parts of the face skin and determine through sensors in the mask.

This Bio mask will bring a 24/7 treatment to the damaged skin patients and researchers are hopeful that the system will bring positive changes for the recovery of burned skin. More information has been given at UT Arlington and it is expected that this Bio mask will be available within the next five years. Where current burn treatment involves the grafting treatment for infected areas, this new procedure of Biomask will bring much ease and fast recovery of military soldiers.