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ulletin by Peter Wray c o v e r s t o r y ‘Cotton candy’ that heals? Borate glass nanofibers look promising. I n late summer of 2010, registered nurse Peggy Taylor (Credit: The American Ceramic Society) suddenly saw some longed-for signs of healing in a nasty shin wound in one of her patients with diabetes. Just a few days before, Taylor had done to the patient something that she and no one else in the world had ever done in wound care before: She had filled the wound with a material that could have been mistaken for cotton, but was in fact specially processed borate glass fibers. Taylor, a wound-care specialist for more than four years, had been used to dealing with wounds that healed at slow and nearly imperceptible rates. But when she and the patient – who also happened to be a nurse – noticed the edges of the large, deep, stubborn wound had finally started to slope inwards, they were the happiest they had been in a long time. “That was the first sign of healing,” she said in an interview in late March. “It began as a 50 millimeter by 30 millimeter wound that was 3 millimeters deep. That was the day she really began going down the road to healing. Now, after using the glass fiber treatments for week after week on the wound, it is essentially gone.” And when Taylor says “gone,” she means something close to “vanished.” Not normal scarring, certainly. “It’s amazing. There is so little scar tissue American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 90, No. 4 there, if I didn’t know the wound was there, I’d have no idea,” she claims. This doesn’t appear to be a fluke. Taylor, a certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse on the staff of the Phelps County Regional Medical Center (Rolla, Mo.), says that seven other patients participating in trials being conducted by PCRMC have had similar results with the glass fiber treatment. She says, in total, 12 patients are in the trials and the four who still have wounds are making progress, too. 25
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