Design Concepts
Top Loading
The TiTaMED Spinal System is top loading which makes surgery easier for the surgeon and less traumatic for the patient.
This is achieved by allowing easier rod insertion into (and removal from) the screw and additionally providing an accesible interface for the tooling to the implant. Together this enables the surgeon to trim away less bone and soft tissue; saving theatre time and causing less trauma to the patient.
Round Screw Head
When extending a fusion or removing instrumentation, the round headed Ti-TaMED screws makes the removal procedure simple and less traumatic by allowing it to be screwed out of the pedicle without the need to trim surrounding bone or soft tissue.
Uniaxial Articulating Mobile/Locking Head
Internationally Patented
This facilitates ease of use for the surgeon. If adjacent screws are not parallel, the rod does not need to be contoured as much as with rigid screws. When used in scoliosis correction, these screws enable translation correction by just rotating the rod.
Polyaxial Articulating Head
These heads allow for less contouring of the rod when doing multi-level fusions.
Self Tapping Parallel Screw Thread
The outside/major diameter is constant, i.e. parallel in all screw types.
Mobile, Locking and Polyaxial Screws use the same self tapping thread profile: the inner core/minor diameter of the screw shank is parallel from the tip to approximately 20mm from the head - thereafter it increases towards the screw head. This optimizes the strength at the screw-head junction, without compromising grip at the bone-metal interface.
Rigid Screws similarly have the inner core/minor diameter parallel from the tip to approximately 20mm from the head - thereafter it increases towards the head, reaching full outside diameter approximately 3mm from the top of the shank, maximising strength at the screw-head junction.
Due to the size of the starter hole in relation to the size of the start of the self tapping thread, the use of a tap is very seldom required. If a tap is required, there are easy to use taps for the corresponding screw type and size.
Buttress Thread
The buttress thread, in the screw-grub screw interface, used on all the Ti-TaMED Pedicle Screws allows for greater contact surface area on the thread, therefore providing additional strength and preventing the tendency to loosen.
Tooling
Much time, effort and research has been put into ergonomically designing our tooling to be reliable, balanced and userfriendly for the surgeon and theatre staff and are clearly labeled for easy identification. Tool size and design has been optimized to minimize soft tissue damage to the patient.
Medical Grade Material
All our implants are made from the highest grade medical 6Al-4V ELI Titanium manufactured according to ASTM F136-84 specifications and/or medical grade PEKK. We only source our material from reputable US suppliers that are accepted by CE and FDA authorities.
