Product Details

Distal Femoral Lateral Locking Compression Plates

Matching screw (5.0 locking screw/5.0 cortical screws)

Ref No. Holes L/R

Titanium

0013501 5 L

0013502 5 R

0013503 7 L

0013504 7 R

0013505 9 L

0013506 9 R

0013507 11 L

0013508 11 R

0013509 13 L

0013510 13 R

Locking plate system is a fixation device with thread holes. When the thread holes are fixed threaded screws, the plate becomes a angle fixing device. Compared with traditional normal plates, locking plates have the following advantages,

1. Conventional plate/screw systems require precise adaptation of the plate to the underlying bone. Without this intimate contact, tightening of the screws will draw the bone segments toward the plate, resulting in alterations in the position of the osseous segments and the occlusal relationship. Locking plate/screw systems offer certain advantages over other plates in this regard; the most significant being that it becomes unnecessary for the plate to intimately contact the underlying bone in all areas. As the screws are tightened, they "lock" to the plate, thus stabilizing the segments without the need to compress the bone to the plate. This makes it impossible for the screw insertion to alter the reduction.

2. Another potential advantage in locking plate/screw systems is that they do not disrupt the underlying cortical bone perfusion as much as conventional plates, which compress the undersurface of the plate to the cortical bone.

3. A third advantage to the use of locking plate/screw systems is that the screws are unlikely to loosen from the plate. This means that even if a screw is inserted into a fracture gap, loosening of the screw will not occur. Similarly, if a bone graft is screwed to the plate, a locking head screw will not loosen during the phase of graft incorporation and healing. The possible advantage to this property of a locking plate/screw system is a decreased incidence of inflammatory complications due to loosening of the hardware.

4. Locking plate/screw systems have been shown to provide more stable fixation than conventional nonlocking plate/screw systems.

Although locking plates are moe expensive, but we can not deny they are a trend. More and more surgeons and patient like to choose the lock platings. Welcome to choose our products.

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