Design Concepts

Top Loading

The Ti-TaMED Spinal System is top loading which makes surgery easier for the surgeon and less traumatic to the patient.

This is achieved by allowing easier rod insertion into, and removal from the screw and additionally providing an easier interface for the tooling to the system. 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

Upon removal, after a fusion or when extending a fusion, the round screw head of the Ti-TaMED Spinal System makes the removal procedure simple and less traumatic. The round head allows the screw 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. If adjacent screws are not parallel, then the rod does not need to be contoured as much as with rigid screws. When used in scoliosis correction, these screws offer translation correction.

Polyaxial Articulating Head

When doing multi-level fusions, these heads allow for less contouring of the rod.

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 using them. Tool size and design has been optimized to reduce additional soft tissue damage to the patient.

Buttress Thread

The buttress thread used on all the Ti-TaMED screws allows for a greater contact surface area on the thread, therefore providing greater strength and reducing the tendency to loosen.

Medical Grade Material

All our implants are made from the highest grade medical 6Al-4V ELI Titanium manufactured accoring to ASTM F136-84 specifications and/or medical grade PEEK.

Parallel Thread

The outside/major diameter is constant, i.e. parallel in all screw types.

Mobile, Locking and Polyaxial Screws use the same thread profile: the inner core/minor diameter is parallel from the tip to approximately 20mm from the head - thereafter it increases towards the 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.