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FARMINGDALE, N.Y., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Misonix, Inc. (NasdaqGM: MSON), an international surgical device company that designs, manufactures and markets innovative therapeutic ultrasonic products for spine surgery, skull-based surgery, neurosurgery, wound debridement, cosmetic surgery, laparoscopic surgery and other surgical applications, announces a new clinical paper accepted for publication by "The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery," a...

Choosing partial or total knee replacement today. Carmel, NY (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 Knee replacement surgery has come a long way since it was first performed in 1968. More than 600,000 knee replacements are performed each year in the United States, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Improvements in materials and advances in surgical techniques have led to better outcomes for patients: faster...

SARASOTA, Fla., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With a variety of knee replacement surgical options, there's no reason to put up with persistent knee pain. "Knee replacement should be considered when the quality of one's life becomes increasingly compromised by the condition of the knee," said Ronald P. White, M.D., a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon at Kennedy-White Orthopaedic Center in Sarasota, Florida. "We have many new options in knee replacement surgery." One example is...

NEW DELHI, January 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Orthopedic Implants are medical devices used to replace fixation of bone or to replace injured or troubled joints. Bone is the basic element of human body, which provides definite shape imparts strength & firmness and assists in movement. Humans commonly suffer from physical fractures, i.e., breaks of long bones such as the femur, tibia or humerus. Treatment of these fractures often requires surgery to artificially provide...

New "Mini Knee" Replacement Less Invasive, Spares Bone, Results in Faster Recovery Using RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) July 11, 2011 Marc W. Hungerford, M.D., Director of Joint Replacement and Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center, has begun performing MAKOplasty Partial Knee Resurfacing using the RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System. Dr. Hungerford, a board certified orthopedic surgeon, is the first in the State of Maryland to offer this...

Knee pain related to osteoarthritis (OA) is a common complaint among obese individuals and retired professional athletes, especially former NFL players, but researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day program (February 19th) say they have a simple solution: lose weight."Our research on patients who were obese with early-onset knee osteoarthritis showed that those individuals who underwent isolated weight loss via bariatric surgery...

LEUVEN, Belgium, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ - Materialise is proud of its involvement in the successful pilot study conducted by Dr. J. Victor, AZ St Lucas, Brugge, Belgium which evaluated the feasibility of using computer-assisted surgical planning and patient-specific surgical guides in correcting lower limb malalignment. In this study, Materialise's SurgiCase Orthopaedics was used to describe lower limb malalignment and virtually plan multi-planar correction using CT scans. It was proven...

The IKEA pencil: A surprising find in the NHSIKEA pencils are better at marking out cuts in the bone for facial and head surgery than traditional felt tipped pens, say two surgeons in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today.Karen Eley, from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Stephen Watt-Smith, from the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, say that while the popularity of the IKEA pencil is widely known...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Misonix, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSON), a developer of state of the art, ultrasonic medical device technology, which worldwide is used for acute health conditions, has announced its attendance and exhibition at the 20th Congress of the European Association for Cranial-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS), which was held recently in Bruges, Belgium. The EACMFS is widely regarded as the premier educational event for maxillofacial surgery in Europe. Misonix...

ACUTE Innovations LLC. has created the first resorbable plate specifically designed for rib fractures and osteotomies. The BioBridgeâ„¢ Resorbable Chest Wall Stabilization Plate is designed to reduce pain by stabilizing movement of a cut or broken rib after thoracotomy procedure. In preliminary studies, the BioBridge plate has reduced patient pain and narcotic use when compared to non-plated osteotomy after thoracotomy. Hillsboro, OR (PRWEB) November 3, 2010 A considerable amount of...