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Oxford Announces Patient-Specific Implants (Biloine Young @ OTW)
Osteofab, a division of Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) of South Windsor, Connecticut, has manufactured and shipped its first patient-specific implant. According to OPM President Scott Defelice, the custom-designed implant is made by a selective laser centering machine from a polymer called polyetherketoneketone or PEKK.
Spinal cages and other implants made from the material are widely distributed in 25 countries, he said, and the firm has recently received approval from regulatory authorities in Argentina and Peru for devices made from the polymer. OPM’s first regulatory approval in the region came in 2010 with the ANVISA (Brazil) approval of another spinal implant device. “With approvals in three major South American countries, OXPEKK-IG is firmly positioned to be a lead material on the continent,” said Defelice.
Defelice told OTW that OPM had just established its division for making patient-specific implants when it received its first order from its partner and distributor in Australia. “They sent us a digital file on Monday (November 28), we manufactured it on Wednesday and shipped it on Thursday,” he said. OPM was founded in 2005 and is an offshoot of a French manufacturing company.