Iodine that kills bacteria and spares the wound.
IothaFoam™ is an iodine-releasing foam wound dressing designed to clear biofilm while staying compatible with the cells a wound needs to heal.
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Hard-to-heal wounds are a biofilm problem.
Clinicians have long had to choose between dressings that fight infection and dressings that let tissue heal. IothaFoam is designed so they don't have to.
Today's default kills planktonic bacteria — and the keratinocytes and fibroblasts that heal — yet is weak against established biofilm. Resistance is now documented.
Free iodine kills bacteria, biofilm, viruses and fungi. Too little does nothing; too much harms tissue. The trick is holding the wound inside that window.
An open-cell polyurethane foam that releases iodine slowly, for days between changes — not hours. Patent pending: US 2025/0064645 A1.
Three layers. One job.
A breathable film over an iodinated open-cell foam. The foam's cells hold the iodine and release it steadily into the wound bed — enough to act on biofilm, below the level that harms healing tissue.
From prototype to 510(k).
Q253783 complete — predicate and test plan agreed. Class II 510(k) pathway.
Full-size dressings made by a U.S. medical foam converter.
Planned for Q2 2027, after the verification test program.
Responding to the DHA's open solicitation for this device class.
For more than 40 years, Dr. LeVeen had to choose between dressings that fight infection and dressings that let tissue heal. IothaFoam is built so clinicians no longer have to make that choice.