MiMedx Group, Inc., the leading biopharmaceutical company developing and marketing regenerative and therapeutic biologics utilizing human placental tissue allografts with patent-protected processes for multiple sectors of healthcare, announced today that the Company has now distributed over 1,000,000 allografts to date for application in the Wound Care, Burn, Surgical, Orthopedic, Spine, Sports Medicine, Ophthalmic and Dental sectors of healthcare.   

Parker H. "Pete" Petit, Chairman and CEO stated, "We are very pleased about hitting this impressive milestone of supplying our one millionth allograft. We are especially proud of the hundreds of thousands of patients that our allografts have aided in the healing of their respective conditions. The remarkable outcomes produced by the application of our allografts have assisted physicians and their patients in countless areas of care. These include recovery from acute and traumatic wounds that are debilitating and complex; avoidance of limb amputations; supporting various surgical applications to provide a barrier to reduce the amount of scar tissue formation, modulate inflammation and help with the soft tissue healing of the area; and repair and reconstruction of various soft-tissue injuries in or around joints caused by traumas or chronic conditions. The soft tissue injuries treated with our allografts affect various anatomical locations, mainly knee, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle and hand and wrist injuries, as well as tendinopathies, tendinitis, tendinosis, tendon and ligament sprains, and ruptures."

Bill Taylor, President and COO, added, "We are also extremely proud of our outstanding safety record. We have extremely stringent screening and quality standards in our recovery of donated placentas, and our patented processing methodology includes both aseptic processing as well as terminal sterilization, which enhances the safety and prevention of infectious disease transmission of our allografts.  Moreover, our strict sterilization processes and proprietary processing methodology does not affect the cytokines, growth factors, regulatory proteins, chemokines and other critical factors that optimize the performance of the MiMedx allografts and enable our allografts to deliver the clinical results that Pete just referenced."

"Our dehydrated human amnion chorion membrane allografts are described in an official United States Pharmacopeia and The National Formulary Monograph, which sets the standards for drug substances, dosage forms, excipients, compounded preparations, dietary supplements, and medical devices. A  USP-NF Monograph on a human tissue product is a very rare occurrence and a recognition that allografts claiming to be dHACM allografts are only those produced in conformance with these exceptionally high standards to avoid any potential for adulteration or misbranding. We are very proud to have that distinction," added Petit.

"The areas of care that our allografts serve are a major burden on the American health care system in both the negative impact they have on the patient's quality of life and functionality as well as the escalating costs of care. We are pleased that we have and will continue to play an expanding role in helping the healthcare community resolve these burdens by improving outcomes and reducing costs," noted Chris Cashman, EVP and Chief Commercialization Officer.

In recognition of this achievement, we will be make a donation to a charity recommended by the physician that utilized our one millionth allograft," concluded Petit.