Intervertebral body fusion device

Details Intervertebral body fusion device Intervertebral body fusion device

1999-01-19

2000-08-15

Buiz, Michael

Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or ai

Implantable prosthesis

Bone

606 61, A61F 244

Patent

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061029505

ABSTRACT:
An intervertebral body fusion device has a wedge body, a cage component with a plurality of deployable spines having end plate penetrating teeth, and a contraction mechanism for drawing the wedge body into the cage component. The device is surgically placed intervertebrally into the spine from an anterior surgical approach. In its final surgically-implanted position, the wedge body is substantially fully drawn within the cage component, resulting in a full deployment of teeth and associated spines into the adjacent end plates of the vertebral bodies, while simultaneously restoring the angle of lordosis to the spine.

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