Regulations last checked for updates: Apr 30, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 872.3680 - Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) vitreous carbon materials.

(a) Identification. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) vitreous carbon material is a device composed of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) vitreous carbon intended for use in maxillofacial alveolar ridge augmentation (building up the upper or lower jaw area that contains the sockets in which teeth are rooted) or intended to coat metal surgical implants to be placed in the alveoli (sockets in which the teeth are rooted) or the temporomandibular joints (the joint between the upper and lower jaws).

(b) Classification. Class II.

[52 FR 30097, Aug. 12, 1987; 52 FR 34456, Sept. 11, 1987]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 52 FR 30097, Aug. 12, 1987, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 872.3680