Surgical implant maker launches injection moulded titanium interbodies

Surgical implant maker Xenco Medical has launched its CancelleX porous titanium lumbar interbodies, the first injection-moulded titanium foam spinal implants pre-attached to disposable, composite polymer instruments.

Inspired by cancellous bone, Xenco Medical’s CancelleX lumbar interbodies feature interconnected porosity throughout each implant and break new ground in the application of injection moulding to the manufacturing of titanium spinal implants. 

Designed to promote bone apposition and facilitate vascularisation, the bio-inspired titanium foam implants by Xenco Medical feature high compressive strength. Sterile-packaged, CancelleX is the first titanium foam implant of its kind to come pre-attached to a disposable, composite polymer delivery instrument.

The titanium foam interbodies by Xenco Medical were developed by leveraging advanced manufacturing technology. Unlike traditional instruments that are reused in hundreds of patients until a mechanical failure, the disposable Xenco Medical instruments attached to each titanium foam implant are calibrated and sterile-packaged for patient-specific use.

Xenco Medical founder and CEO Jason Haider, said: “Optimised for energy absorption and bone in-growth, the interconnected network of pores that permeate each CancelleX porous titanium implant serve to achieve bone-like mechanical properties.”

With the single-use, composite polymer instrument and titanium foam implants locked together in each sterile package, the Xenco Medical systems are designed to both increase efficiency in the operating room as well as eliminate the internal logistics associated with the autoclave process.