We completed our acquisition of Mentor Corporation at the end of January and we are moving full speed ahead on integration of Mentor and Omrix Biopharmaceuticals within our Ethicon Surgical business. We are making progress with the integration of health media and human performance institute as we advance our new wellness and prevention platform. This business is now being reported as part of the Consumer segments financial results. These and our other acquisitions like Dabao Cosmetics and SurgRX are adding important sales and growth opportunities to our business but I would remind you that this quarter and the years results will also reflect the divestiture of our professional wound care business which was sold in the fourth quarter of 2008. Ethicon worldwide sales grew operationally by 9.1% with the US up 18.8% and sales outside the US up 3.7% operationally. The acquisitions of Mentor and Omrix offset by the divestiture of the professional wound care business added approximately two points to the worldwide growth. Sales in the US on a pro-forma basis for our newly acquired aesthetics products from Mentor although lower then 2008 performed better then the estimated market. Strong double digit growth was achieved in meshes and bio-surgical.
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