Patent ID: 11865014
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A method for stabilizing a spine comprising the steps of:
providing a surgical implant comprising:
an implantable body formed at least in part of a metal sized and configured to be inserted in a disc space, the body comprising an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface comprises a surface treatment which contains primary cavities and secondary cavities, the primary cavities being larger than the secondary cavities,
wherein the surface treatment includes recasted material adjacent to a plurality of the primary cavities,
wherein the recasted material has an average height of 1-100 micrometers, the primary cavities have an average depth of 19-499 micrometers from a surface of the implant, and the secondary cavities have an average depth of 5 nanometers to 10 micrometers; and
positioning the surgical implant between adjacent vertebral bodies.