Patent ID: 7169183
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A vertebral implant for installation in a disc space comprising a box-shaped, elongated basis body defining a longitudinal axis, which is provided with a cavity extending transverse to the longitudinal axis and through upper and lower bearing surfaces, which cavity is bordered by two planar walls located opposite one another and extending along said longitudinal axis and between said upper and lower bearing surfaces, each of said planar walls having substantially smooth portions extending around said cavity and said planar walls extend between two frontal walls located opposite one another on opposite sides of said cavity, whose crosswise-extending edge surfaces serve as contact surfaces between the vertebrae and the vertebral implant, wherein the two frontal walls of the cavity are formed thicker than both of the longitudinal walls, thereby widening their crosswise-extending edge surfaces, and wherein the implant is made of synthetic material and a groove is formed in each of the crosswise-extending edge surfaces of both of the frontal walls, which groove extends transverse to the longitudinal axis of the basis body, wherein the basis body has receiving means on one frontal end portion for receiving a hand tool such that, with this, a rotational moment about the longitudinal axis of the basis body can be exerted on the basis body and the receiving means has an outwardly open hole formed in the middle of the frontal wall of the basis body and two grooves formed to the side of the hole in the frontal wall of the basis body, which hole is open toward the outside.