Patent ID: 8870882
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing fixation of adjacent vertebral bodies comprising: a handle; an elongated shaft; a head coupled to the elongated shaft; wherein the head further comprises a forked end having two or more tines for grasping a bioactive implantable material which is adapted to be inserted into the joint space between two or more intervertebral bodies, wherein each of said two or more tines are free-standing with a first proximal end and a second distal end, wherein said second distal end is not connected to a distal end of another of said two or more tines; and wherein the elongated shaft further comprises a generally cylindrical body having a continuous, hollow portion about a longitudinal axis of the generally cylindrical body, which is in communication with at least one aperture located at the distal end of the elongated shaft; and wherein said head is composed of bioactive implant material.