FIRST TRIADYME CERVICAL DISC IMPLANTED (Orthopedics This Week)
Dymicron website
the press release
An American surgeon, William D. Smith, M.D., has successfully installed a total disc replacement device in a patient at the American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Cyprus. This represented the first in-human surgery using Dymicron, Inc.’s Triadyme-C cervical total disc replacement.
“The patients are responding well to the implantation of the Dymicron devices,” said Smith, chairman of AIMIS Spine Center and Chief of Neurosurgery for the University Medical Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. “The Triadyme-C is unique in its composition and design, most notably for its diamond compact. This design may place Dymicron as a front runner in cervical total disc replacement (TDR) devices in a time when research has shown cervical TDR is often superior to fusion.”
There are two primary concerns in the disc replacement field, according to Dymicron officials. One is the minimization of wear debris and the copying of the natural motion in the spine.
Dymicron claims that its “biocompatible Orthopedic Diamond material is made of polycrystalline diamond compact, one of the hardest and most durable ...
