Biocompatible materials are characterized by having the property of not degrading or destroying the environment with which they coexist, that is, they do not destroy the biological environment where they exert their action, for this reason, they are materials used and implemented in living beings like humans, plants or animals, another name for biocompatible elements is "biomaterials".
Due to the concept exposed, it is easy to understand then that these materials are used in most cases in the health or hospital environment, the materials used for contact with the tissue and internal mucosa of humans are biocompatible, examples of these elements are catheters, probes, sterile syringes, among others.
These materials may have a brief or prolonged contact with the patient, if it is brief there is a risk of causing intoxication or hypersensitivity to the material used, on the other hand, if the contact is going to be postponed or prolonged, it must be taken into account that does not have any type of reaction against the patient, that is, they are totally inert materials, and after the materials used are absorbed or undergo degradation, so that later they are supplanted by the normal tissue of the patient; an example of this is the absorbable sutures used for internal stitches.
Another characteristic that cannot be neglected, which these materials must have, is that the complete and permanent union with the tissue occurs, as is the case with orthopedic implants or dental implants.
