BioVoice News November 2017 Issue 6 Volume 2 | Page 20

How do you operate in Asia and particularly in India? plastic and reconstructive surgeons, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, ENT surgeons and thoracic surgeons. For each case, we create tailored implants. For example, if there is a tumor in sternum, you have to cut the ribs to remove it. In order to create the replacement structure back in place, we 20 BioVoiceNews | November 2017 We have been selling only the cranial implant products in India so far. Custom cranial implants have been sold in Indian market for the last 3-4 years since we started with a distributor based in New Delhi. The business in India has been small for us. We haven’t entered into the market with other products yet as the primary market of focus has been united states, Europe, New Zealand, create a product with Australia and couple of titanium alloy and a mix of other countries in Asia poly-carbonate and other including Singapore, materials to suit the Malaysia and Hong Kong. requirement. Another But now having example is of a established the Asian maxillofacial surgery or headquarters at what is called the plastic surgery in which instead of Singapore, we plan to build our operations in using silicon, we use India and other countries polymeric material.This in Asia. Within next 2 ensures that the patients years, we will build up the don’t have to go back capability in Singapore again to the doctor after and also devise a business six months.