or more group of drugs known for their antimicrobial anti adhesion and growth promoting agents the ideal coating system can be a crystalline easy to apply lubricious polymeric system that provides surface lubricity and its composition can be controlled to assist in modulating the absorption biodegradation profile of the fast absorbing component at least in the first two weeks following implantation although slow and fast absorbable biodegradable components of the composite are so far described as multifilament yarns which are warped independently other alternative approaches can be used entailing 1 plying the fast with the slow absorbable biodegradable yarns prior to warping 2 using one or more additional yarns with a moderate or fast absorption biodegradation profile 3 using the fast absorbing component as a single or two ply monofilament 4 using a yarn component based on an elastomeric polymer u2014 this can be in the form of a fast moderate or faster absorbing monofilament 2 ply monofilament or multifilament the use of elastomeric components is expected to accommodate any transient change in stress at the application site at the initial period of implantation when inflammation induced swelling is encountered to further modulate the performance of the composite mesh enzymatically biodegradable multifilament yarn can be used as the slow biodegrading component such yarns include those based on silk fibroin poly 4 hydroxyalkanoate casein chitosan soy protein and similar naturally derived materials with or without chemical modification to modulate their biodegradation.