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Introduction to Ant-Cer II  Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plating System

Controlled Ratcheting Technology Delivers Benefits Beyond Cervical Fusion

The Ant-Cer II Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plating System’s unique design features successfully leverage the principles of Wolff’s Law to promote stronger fusion while minimizing the risk of adjacent disc impingement.

Controlled Ratcheting Technology delivers a constant load on the graft compression and avoids stress shielding.
  • Controlled one-way ratcheting allows for the plate to compress as natural settling occurs.
    • Provides a constant axial load on the graft.
    • The plate cannot piston, which mitigates non-union of the fusion area.
Segmented Design avoids adjacent level impingement – a direct patient benefit.
  • Designed to prevent migration into the healthy adjacent disc space.
  • Translation occurs through the plate and not by toggling the screws.
  • Multi-level plates produce screw slots at intermediate levels to allow for segmental settling.
SecureRing® technology provides zero-step locking and captures 360° of the screw’s head. Independent lab results showed that SecureRing offered peak push out resistance of 437 N. This is greater than reported results with Synthes' CSLP plate and Medtronic's Venture and Atlantis cervical plates.1

The Ant-Cer II Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plating System Resource Center offers surgeons and health care providers the latest information on this new technology and its expanding role in cervical spine surgery.

1Data on file Zimmer Spine.

Last Updated: 06/04/2009