The Ten Best New Spine Technologies of 2012 (Orthopedics This Week)
are Biomet, Inc., ISTO Technologies, Inc., Medtronic Spine and Biologics, Mighty Oak Medical, NuVasive, Inc., Safewire, LLC, Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery (SMISS) and TransCorp Spine.
A record number of companies submitted their new technologies for review. Not only were the odds of winning longer this year, but our esteemed panel of judges was particularly picky. High scores were few and far between. Still, a few new technologies did catch these discriminating surgeons’ attention. And were there any patterns? Yes:
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