Patent ID: 7850736
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. An implant for insertion into a patient between first and second vertebral members, the implant comprising: a body including first and second exterior walls and sidewalls that extend between the first and second exterior walls that form an enclosed interior cavity into which bone growth promoting materials are insertable, the body sized and configured to fit within an intervertebral space with the first wall facing towards the first vertebral member and the second wall facing towards the second vertebral member when the implant is inserted into the patient; a plurality of apertures extending through each of the first and second walls and into the interior cavity; the plurality of apertures being spaced apart along a length and a width of each of the first and second walls; and a plurality of cutting features to decorticate the vertebral members with one of the plurality of cutting features protruding outward from the body at each aperture, each of the plurality of cutting features including a leading surface and a trailing surface, the leading surface and the trailing surface intersecting at a cutting edge that is at least partly disposed over the aperture; wherein a first cutting feature includes a first leading surface facing a first cutting direction and a second cutting feature includes a second leading surface facing a different second cutting direction.