Implant having arcuate upper and lower bearing surfaces along a longitudinal axis
First Claim
1. An implant for insertion between a first vertebra and a second vertebra, the first vertebra having a first cortical bone endplate and the second vertebra having a second cortical bone endplate, wherein the implant comprises:
- a first terminal part defining a first bearing surface substantially planar and adapted to bear against the first cortical bone endplate and an opposite second bearing surface substantially planar and adapted to bear against the second cortical bone endplate;
a second terminal part opposite said first terminal part, said second terminal part defining a third bearing surface adapted to bear against the first cortical bone endplate, a fourth bearing surface adapted to bear against the second cortical bone endplate, and an insertion face extending arcuately from the third bearing surface to the fourth bearing surface, said third bearing surface and said fourth bearing surface include an anti-expulsion feature; and
an elongated body including a central portion extending from said first terminal part to said second terminal part, said body defining a longitudinal axis and having an upper bearing surface and a lower bearing surface, wherein the upper bearing surface and the lower bearing surface are arcuate along the longitudinal axis.
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Abstract
The present application is directed to interbody spinal fusion implants having a structural configuration that provides for the maintaining and creating of the normal anatomic angular relationship of two adjacent vertebrae of the spine to maintain and create spinal lordosis. The spinal fusion implants are sized to fit within the disc space created by the removal of disc material between two adjacent vertebrae and conform wholly or in part to the disc space created. The spinal fusion implants of the present invention have upper and lower surfaces that form a support structure for bearing against the end plates of the adjacent vertebrae. The upper and lower surfaces are disposed in a converging angular relationship to each other such that the implants have an overall “wedged-shape” in an elevational side view. The angular relationship of the upper and lower surfaces places and maintains the vertebrae adjacent to those surfaces in an angular relationship to each other, creating and maintaining the desired lordosis.
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18 Claims
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1. An implant for insertion between a first vertebra and a second vertebra, the first vertebra having a first cortical bone endplate and the second vertebra having a second cortical bone endplate, wherein the implant comprises:
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a first terminal part defining a first bearing surface substantially planar and adapted to bear against the first cortical bone endplate and an opposite second bearing surface substantially planar and adapted to bear against the second cortical bone endplate;
a second terminal part opposite said first terminal part, said second terminal part defining a third bearing surface adapted to bear against the first cortical bone endplate, a fourth bearing surface adapted to bear against the second cortical bone endplate, and an insertion face extending arcuately from the third bearing surface to the fourth bearing surface, said third bearing surface and said fourth bearing surface include an anti-expulsion feature; and
an elongated body including a central portion extending from said first terminal part to said second terminal part, said body defining a longitudinal axis and having an upper bearing surface and a lower bearing surface, wherein the upper bearing surface and the lower bearing surface are arcuate along the longitudinal axis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An implant for insertion between a first vertebra and a second vertebra, the first vertebra having a generally vertically extending first peripheral wall and a first cortical bone endplate and the second vertebra having a generally vertically extending second peripheral wall and a second cortical bone endplate, wherein the implant comprises:
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a first terminal part defining a first bearing surface adapted to bear against a portion of the cortical bone endplate proximate to the first peripheral wall and an opposite second bearing surface adapted to bear against a portion of the second cortical bone endplate proximate to the second peripheral wall;
an elongated body including a central part extending from said first terminal part, said central part defining a longitudinal axis and having an upper bearing surface and a lower bearing surface wherein the upper bearing surface and the lower bearing surface extend arcuately from the first terminal part in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis, terminating in a second terminal part opposite said first terminal part, said second terminal part including an anti-expulsion feature and having an insertion face extending from the upper bearing surface to the lower bearing surface wherein said insertion face consists of a curved surface, said curve extending from the upper bearing surface to the lower bearing surface. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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