It’s called “Ventana”, and it comes a “lid.” Why didn’t someone think of this earlier?
This 3D implanted interbody implant is both familiar and clearly, cleverly, unique.
Created and manufactured by Carlsbad, California-based Spinal Elements, Inc., the Ventana portfolio of 3D-printed interbody implants include:
- The Ventana C Anterior Cervical Interbody System,
- Ventana P/T Posterior Lumbar Interbody System and
- Ventana L Lateral Lumbar Interbody System.
The systems are part of Spinal Element’s MIS Ultra® platform of products and procedural solutions.
“The Ventana family of implants have a 3D-printed architecture that allows for clear radiographic visualization during imaging. The implant’s window (looks like a ‘lid’) allows for a large amount of bone graft to be securely placed within the disc space to ensure contact with the endplates, which I believe is essential for the fusion process,” said Neel Anand, M.D., Anand Spine Group, Los Angeles, California.
Spinal Elements CEO Ron Lloyd told OTW, “The Ventana architecture was developed by a talented team of engineers here at Spinal Elements to combine many of the desired benefits of interbodies. The architecture is a 3D-printed, titanium lattice structure designed to secure a large volume of bone graft inside the implant, while providing radiographic visualization.”
He added, “The Spinal Elements team is dedicated to bringing innovative products to market that when combined with our Orbit discectomy instrument set and our fixations systems, like Karma®, Overwatch® or Sapphire X®, they successfully work together to achieve spinal fusion.”
“Ventana represents another major milestone in our mission to redefine spinal healthcare.”
The entire Ventana concept was an organic development process which combined the talents of the Spinal Elements team with input and guidance from multiple spine surgery thought leaders.
And, naturally, 3D printing processes have revolutionized interbody designs, creating a wide variety of open architectures and therefore maximizing bone grafting. Now, with the window/lid, Spinal Element’s Ventana design family improves each surgeon the ability to access the interior of the implant and to maximize bone grafting for, to repeat:
- TLIF [transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion],
- PLIF [posterior lumbar interbody fusion] and
- lateral indications.
Finally, as CEO Lloyd told OTW. “The unique architecture distributes the surface area contact with the vertebral bodies in a snowshoe effect.”
