Clinical benefits
The bioabsorbable Inion Freedom™ screws 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:
- 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™ screws are entirely made of non-conductive and non-ferrous material components
- High-strength screws due to reinforced polymer
- Low profile fixation due to low screw head design and the possibility to cut off the screw head (in case of fully-threaded screws)
- Enhanced biomechanics of the plate-screw construct
- 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 hot wire
- Anatomic low-profile plate-screw construct when used with Inion FreedomPlate™
- The screws are delivered with a disposable metallic adapter and are compatible with widely-used universal instrumentation: ISO, ASIF, AO
- The screws can be cut to the desired length during the operation, which allows low inventory quantities
Clinical Evidence
Arthroscopy-assisted absorbable screw combined with Kirschner wire internal fixation for Sanders type III displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures: a retrospective study, Zeng, G., Xie, Q., Cai, L. et al. (2025)
Comparison of surgical outcomes between bioabsorbable and metal screw fixation for distal tibial physeal fracture in children and adolescent, Kim, W., Oh, M.J., Park, M.S. et al. (2024).
