Instrumentation provides a permanent solution to spinal instability.
Medical implants are specially designed to come in many shapes and sizes. Typically these include rods, hooks, braided cable, plates, screws, and more recently - threaded interbody cages. Spinal Fusion is a process using bone graft to cause two opposing bony surfaces to grow together. In medical terminology, this is called Arthrodesis. This experimental compound stimulates the body to make bone.