Clinical benefits
The bioabsorbable Inion Freedom™ plates provide several clinical benefits to trauma and reconstructive orthopaedic procedures:
- Bone healing: maintenance of accurate alignment of
- bone fractures
- osteotomies
- arthrodesis
- bone grafts
with appropriate additional immobilization
- Avoidance of removal surgery, reducing patient trauma and cost
- No permanent implant left in the body reducing risk of implant migration and stress shielding
Additional benefits
The bioabsorbable Inion Freedom™ implants provide additional benefits due to their technical features and material composition:
- Enhanced biomechanics of the Inion FreedomPlate™-Inion FreedomScrew™ construct compared with a conventional fixation plate
- The tubular plate and polyaxial screw fixation enable a stable three-dimensional construct compared with a conventional fixation plate
- The Inion FreedomScrews™ interlock with the Inion FreedomPlate™. The heat expands the screw shaft and engages the screw to the plate when cut with a low temperature hot loop
- Anatomic low-profile plate-screw construct
- The Inion FreedomPlate™ can be cut and contoured to any desired shape after water bath treatment during the operation, which allows also low inventory quantities
- Variable screw angulations
- Resorbs in 2–4 years
- Predictable degradation progressively loads the bone to aid bone regeneration. The Inion Freedom™ implants maintain adequate strength during the healing period of fracture, osteotomy or other indicated procedure
- No long-term implant palpation, visibility, temperature sensitivity
- No imaging interference: no artifact is created on X-ray, computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by the material
- No release or accumulation of metal debris, nor metal-induced allergies/sensitization
- Sterile-packaged implants reduce the risk of cross-contamination and overall infection risk
- Easier revision procedures: if re-operation is needed, the previously inserted Inion Freedom™ implants have either absorbed or can simply be drilled through
- MR Safe: the Inion Freedom™ implants are entirely made of non-conductive and non-ferrous material components
