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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
May. 18, 2016
Stryker European Holdings I, Llc, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Bradley William Paddock, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Bloomingdale, NJ (US);
Adam Laurance Wollowick, New York, NY (US);
Oliver Buchert, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Matthew B. Havener, West Conshohocken, PA (US);
Robert Cipoletti, Pompton Plains, NJ (US);
Steven Willis, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Marc Gilles Long, Denville, NJ (US);
Stryker European Holdings I, LLC, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
Implants including non-resorbable frameworks and resorbable components, as well as methods of use thereof are disclosed. The embodiments include different combinations of a non-resorbable framework (in some case structural and in other cases non-structural), and a resorbable component embedded within and/or around the framework (again, in some cases structural and in other cases non-structural). The disclosed implants provide an efficient means of providing structural support for the vertebral bodies post-implantation, as well as encouraging resorption of the implant and fusion of the associated vertebral bodies without negative side effects and/or failure, such as subsidence of the implant or cracking/fracturing of a portion of the implant when implanted.