Patent ID: 8361149

Claim:
A wedge-like spinal implant comprising titanium, stainless steel, resorbable polymers, non-resorbable polymers or combinations thereof; said wedge-like spinal implant comprising a length of consecutively joined receptacles having peripheral openings a surgeon can see through prior to addition of osteogenic substances, wherein said length of consecutively joined receptacles comprises: a) a series of trapezoidal dividers having a common lengthwise axis, wherein each divider comprises: i) an inward side; ii) an outward side; iii) a first side connected with said outward side and said inward side forming a first outward corner with said outward side and a first inward corner with said inward side; iv) a second side connected with said outward side and said inward side forming a second outward corner with said outward side and a second inward corner with said inward side; and v) an aperture; b) a first universal corner post contacting said first inward corners; c) a second universal corner post contacting said second inward corners; d) one or more first universal posts contacting said first sides of said dividers; e) one or more second universal posts contacting said second sides of said dividers; f) one or more inward universal posts contacting said inward sides of said dividers; g) one or more bars, parallel to one or more of said outward sides of said series, contacting one of said first universal posts and one of said second universal posts; h) one or more first side brakes, comprising a bore, proximate to said one or more first outward corners and extending laterally beyond said first sides; i) one or more second side brakes, comprising a bore, proximate to said one or more second outward corners and extending laterally beyond said second sides; and j) said series of trapezoidal dividers further comprising: i) a centralized generally horizontal divider; ii) a first set of dividers spaced apart from each other and extending in a first direction away from said centralized generally horizontal divider, wherein said inward side of each of said first set of dividers is closer to said centralized generally horizontal divider than said outward side of each of said first set of dividers such that each of said first set of dividers converges toward said centralized generally horizontal divider at angles of from about 1 degree to about 10 degrees from horizontal; and iii) a second set of dividers spaced apart from each other and extending in a second direction away from said centralized generally horizontal divider, wherein said inward side of each of said second set of dividers is closer to said centralized generally horizontal divider than said outward side of each of said second set of dividers such that each of said second set of dividers converges toward said centralized generally horizontal divider at angles of from about 1 degree to about 10 degrees from horizontal.