Lifenet Health

Andy Pritchard

Dennis Phelps

Jingsong Chen

Nathan Kemper

Lindsay Reed

Thomas Brewer

Thomas W Sander

Roberto Bracone

Michael P Francis

Dennis L Phelps

The invention relates to medical implants, including spinal implants and bone grafts, for fixation and integration with hard tissue. The bone medical implants include at least one rotational fixation mechanism that further includes or is attached to one or more sharp protrusions configured to penetrate and become lodged into hard tissue to provide support and positional stability. Such support is useful to ensure that the spinal bone graft may be used without additional stabilizing or anchoring structures, such as supporting plates or screws.

Medical implant for fixation and integration with hard tissue

A pin made of cortical bone may be inserted into adjoining bones of a toe to align and secure the bones. The pin may have barbs to prevent migration of the pin. The pin may include a shoulder to further prevent migration of the pin from the bones, to increase the strength of the pin, and to increase the surface area between the bone pin and the host bone. The pin may further include flattened portions on its circumference to aide in rotating the pin during insertion. The pin may be treated to reduce brittleness.

Cortical bone pin

The invention relates to an electrospinning apparatus and method of use thereof.

Electrospinning apparatus and methods of use thereof

Wedge-shaped implant having ridges

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Virginia Beach, VA, United States of America

Andy Pritchard