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US 2025/0025317 A1Published application
Implant Inserter Having a Laterally-Extending Dovetail Engagement Feature
AssigneeDePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
InventorsThomas Gamache, Michael D. Sorrenti
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Abstract
A method of inserting a fastener into a fusion cage can include attaching a fastener head of a bone fastener to a flexible bone fastener driver. The method can also include inserting the bone fastener into a threaded throughhole of a fusion cage comprising a front wall, a pair of opposing side walls, a back wall, and top and bottom surfaces adapted for gripping opposed vertebral endplates, wherein the front wall comprises the threaded throughhole.
Claims20
An assembly comprising:
- a fusion cage including a front wall, a pair of opposing side walls, a back wall, and top and bottom surfaces adapted for gripping opposed vertebral endplates, wherein the front wall comprises a threaded throughhole;
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- a flexible bone fastener driver configured to be attached to a fastener head of a bone fastener which is configured to be inserted into the threaded throughhole of the fusion cage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.