Of course, this huge, longitudinal study, with data from 1,626 cervical total disc replacement (TDR) patients, comes from the preeminent spine care institution in the United States, The Texas Back Institute (TBI) of Plano, Texas.
Led by the prolific, inestimable co-founder of TBI, Richard Guyer M.D., the TBI team published their study results in a paper titled, “Removals and Revisions of Cervical Total Disc Replacement Devices in a Consecutive Series of 1626 Patients Beginning With the First Case Experience in 2003,” in the October 2024 edition of Spine.
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