During his time at medical school, every time that Pablo Luchetti witnessed surgery, he was surprised that the closure of the skin still depended on an artisanal and invasive technique such as suturing.
Tensile strength and precision are the two fundamental pillars for wound closure. Suturing techniques address these demands, but at the expense of additional damage and complex surgeon training.
An alternative, minimally invasive and easily learned technique was needed. The first challenge was to disperse the tensile force from the wound edges and transfer it to the surrounding skin surface.
The second big challenge was to obtain a cast of the intact skin, prior to cutting. This copy had to be stored in the elastic memory of the device so that it could later be reproduced accurately at the time of closure. Thus arose the concept of INCLODE: a self-adhesive patch with a built-in closure mechanism.
The next big challenge was to find materials and design capable of copying and reproducing intact skin. Since then, Luciano Poggi joined the project to handle technical product decisions and Diego Fridman partnered to communicate scientific evidence and establish partnerships with external healthcare professionals
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