Surgical method of treating scoliosis

A surgical treatment for restoring a proper anatomical spacing and alignment to vertebral bones of a scoliosis patient comprising:

• determining an angular misalignment associated with at least one pair of adjacent vertebral bones;
• sequentially inserting and removing a series of progressively wider cylindrical spacer elements into the corresponding intervertebral space between said at least one pair of adjacent vertebral bones until the proper anatomical spacing between the pair of adjacent vertebral bones is restored;
• for each intervertebral space, inserting a diametrically tapered cylindrical porous spacer element into the intervertebral space between said corresponding pair of adjacent vertebral bones;
• rotating about an axis passing through both vertebral bones of said corresponding pair of adjacent vertebral bones, said diametrically tapered cylindrical porous spacer element such that the rotational orientation of the diametrically tapered cylindrical porous spacer element introduces the appropriate counter alignment to the intervertebral space of the previously misaligned scoliotic vertebral bones, thereby restoring the proper anatomical alignment of the vertebral bones;
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• stabilizing the pair of adjacent vertebral bones to permit infused growth of bone into the diametrically tapered cylindrical porous spacer element.