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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2015
Nuvasive, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Ali Ismailoglu, San Diego, CA (US);
Frank Vizesi, San Diego, CA (US);
Sung-Ching Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Po-Hung Lai, New Taipei, TW;
Kehsin Chien, New Taipei, TW;
NuVasive, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An osteoinductive bone graft substitute including an osteoinductive calcium phosphate component retained within a collagen scaffold, wherein the collagen scaffold is formulated to maintain the osteoinductivity of the calcium phosphate component while also exhibiting the following characteristics (1) ability to absorb bone marrow and/or other physiologic liquids, (2) compression resistance; (3) moldability; (4) retaining the calcium phosphate component during and after manipulation of the collagen scaffold and (5) fibrous collagen matrix that retains but does not occlude the osteoinductive calcium phosphate component.