Tag: 3D printing
ChoiceSpine announces standalone indication for Blackhawk Ti 3D-printed cervical spacer system
ChoiceSpine recently announced that it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Blackhawk Ti 3D-printed cervical spacer system...
How will technology shape spinal surgery during the next decade?
The last decade proved to be a turning point in the use of advanced technologies in spinal surgery, with developments in areas such as...
Hedron IA 3D printed ALIF spacer used in vertebral body fixation...
Globus Medical has announced the first procedure using the Hedron IA implant, a 3D printed integrated ALIF spacer that leverages anchors or screws for...
CoreLink passes 5,000 3D printed spinal implant milestone
CoreLink has announced the implantation of over 5,000 3D printed devices using its proprietary Mimetic Metal technology.
Mimetic Metal is an additively manufactured technology that...
RTI Surgical announces publication of TETRAfuse PEKK study
RTI Surgical has announced the publication of a study evaluating the in-vivo material characteristics of 3D-printed Polyetherketoneketone (PEKK), TETRAfuse 3D spinal interbody implants compared...
Can 3D printing revolutionise spinal implants?
Redd Warburton, a senior executive search consultant specialising in orthopaedics and spine, has been exploring how 3D printing has the potential to revolutionise the...
Medacta’s MySpine MC wins MedTech Breakthrough Award for orthopaedics and surgical...
Medacta International recently announced its MySpine Midline Cortical (MC) platform has been recognised as this year’s “Best Healthcare Navigation / Robotics Solution” by MedTech...
3D printed implant promotes nerve cell growth to treat spinal cord...
For the first time, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Institute of Engineering in Medicine (La Jolla, USA) have...
Joimax introduces Endoscopic Generation 4 Devices and showcases new 3D-printed titanium...
At the 2018 annual meeting of the German Spine Society (DWG; 6—8 December, Wiesbaden, Germany), joimax will be introducing its Endoscopic Generation 4 Devices and...
A novel approach to complex spinal surgeries: The successful use of...
A novel approach reported by Peter Pijpker and colleagues from the University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, outlines the use of 3D virtual...
Zimmer Biomet announces 510(k) clearance for Zyston strut open titanium interbody...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) clearance for the Zyston strut open titanium interbody spacer system (Zimmer Biomet). This marks...
IB3D 3D-printed interbody devices cleared by US FDA
Medicrea yesterday announced the clearance of their additively-manufactured IB3D titanium interbody devices by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and introduced a new...
“Significantly more bone infiltration” with 3D-printed triangular sacroiliac joint fusion implants
The popularity of sacroiliac joint fusion has grown rapidly over the past five years, with SI-Bone’s Ifuse device leading the market. Recently approved by...
Nuvasive launches 3D-printed porous titanium implant Modulus XLIF
Medical device company Nuvasive have launched a new porous titanium interbody implant for their XLIF procedures, named the Modulus. The Modulus XLIF device is...
Success for first personalised, 3D-printed sternum implant procedure in USA
A US-first surgery to replace the sternum and part of the ribcage of a 20-year-old woman has been successfully completed by a team of...
K2M acquires exclusive license to expandable spinal implant patents
K2M has acquired the exclusive license to a portfolio of 17 issued and pending patents for expandable interbody technology.
K2M has also announced its intent...
First US surgeries performed using 4WEB Medical’s Lateral Spine Truss system
The first surgeries using 4WEB Medical’s Lateral Spine Truss system have been performed across the USA. The lateral interbody fusion device is designed to...
EIT receives US FDA 510(k) approval for entire 3D-printed cage portfolio
Emerging Implant Technologies (EIT) has received full approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commercialise its spinal interbody product offerings for...
Emerging technologies, education and evidence in the spinal world
In a market booming with new technologies and therapies, spinal surgeons are spoilt for choice when it comes to implants and other devices. Stryker’s...
K2M releases Capri Small 3D Static corpectomy cage system
K2M’s Capri Small 3D Static corpectomy cage system has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Capri Small 3D Static...
Additive manufacturing has “changed the trajectory of the medical device industry”
Thomas Mosnier, chief scientific officer of Medicrea—manufacturer of personalised devices such as the UNiD Rod for scoliosis treatment—talks to Spinal News International about the...
K2M releases Mojave PL 3D first-to-market expandable interbody system
K2M’s Mojave posterior lumbar (PL) 3D expandable interbody system has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to a...
Designing spines: Innovations in patient-specific 3D printing
Three-dimensional printing—also known as additive manufacturing—is one of the most exciting platforms shaping technology across sectors as diverse as art, food production and medicine....
DePuy Synthes acquires bone defect-treating 3D printing technology
DePuy Synthes has acquired 3D printing technology from Tissue Regeneration Systems (TRD). The 3D printing methods developed by TRS are designed to create patient-specific,...
World-first implantation of 3D-printed vertebrae takes place in Australia
Ralph Mobbs, a neurosurgeon from the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia, has replaced two cancerous vertebrae with 3D-printed implants, according to a report...
Stryker Tritanium PL cage displays superior bone in-growth to PEEK-only and...
A pre-clinical study of Stryker’s new 3D-printed, highly-porous Tritanium PL interbody cage has found that using the device can result in “statistically superior range-of-motion,...
K2M launches Cascadia interbody systems in the USA
K2M has launched its award-winning Cascadia interbody systems, featuring the company’s Lamellar 3D titanium technology in the USA at the 2016 North American Spine...
First US surgeries performed with 4Web Medical’s curved posterior spine Truss...
4Web Medical has announced that the first surgeries using the company's Curved Posterior Spine Truss system (PSTS) for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedures have...
Spinal Elements and Mighty Oak Medical announce marketing collaboration for Firefly...
Spinal Elements has announced that it will be working with Mighty Oak Medical to market the Firefly surgical guidance system.
The Firefly system consists of...