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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2008
David Lowry, Holland, MI (US);
Desmond O'farrell, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Scott Tuinstra, Holland, MI (US);
Roger Veldman, Hudsonville, MI (US);
David Lowry, Holland, MI (US);
Desmond O'Farrell, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Scott Tuinstra, Holland, MI (US);
Roger Veldman, Hudsonville, MI (US);
Transcorp, Inc., Ada, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention includes a system and methods for performing surgery on a spinal disc. The system includes an implantable bone plate with an access port to accommodate a bone cutting device, a spinal repair device insertable through the access port of the bone plate configured to occupy a surgically-formed vertebral channel from an anterior surface of the host vertebral body to a site central to an end plate of the host vertebral body, a trajectory control sleeve engageable to the bone plate to direct the trajectory of a cutting device, and a cutting device engageable within the trajectory control sleeve. Methods are directed to forming a vertebral channel and restoring the vertebral body and disc with devices that both repair the bone and the disc.