Depuy Spine, Inc.

Depuy Acromed, Inc.

Danielle Sheeran

Carl Lauryssen

Ronald J Naughton

Morris Cesarone

Dennis Cirino

An anterior bone plate system is provided that promotes osseous fusion and allows subsidence while restricting extension. The bone plate system requires a minimum number of screws for securing the plate onto bone, thus reducing the amount of osseous tissue damage incurred by the bone structures to which they are attached. The system is also simple to use and provides for independent screw placement while incurring minimal soft tissue damage from lateral retraction. A method for implementing the system is also provided.

Anterior bone plate system and method of use

A force applying surgical system is provided for use to assist in the insertion and/or removal of a surgical tool or a device attached thereto from an orthopedic structure. This surgical system comprises a medical impacting device that mates with a surgical tool such that the impacting device can be manually reciprocated along an axis of the tool to forcefully impact the impacting device on a portion of the tool. The impacting device can generate a distally directed force for inserting the tool (and/or an attached device) into an orthopedic structure, or it can generate a proximally directed force to remove the tool (and/or attached device) from an orthopedic structure.

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Westwood, MA, United States of America

Danielle Sheeran