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The Bryan Artificial Cervical Disc was approved by the United States
FDA for distribution on May 12, 2009. The Bryan Disc is approved
for use in patients with a single level degenerative disc
disease or disc herniations between C3-C7, with intractable radiculopathy,
and has failed 6 weeks of conservative therapy. Read the details
in the approval
letter and package
contents.
Dr. Pashman participated in the clinical trials and has been
utilizing artificial discs as a treatment option since 2002. He is
at the forefront of the technology, and one of a handful of physicians
in the United States performing this procedure. There will be
a handful of hospitals that have the new instrumentation for the Bryan
Artificial Cervical Disc, and our Medical Center is one of them.
The artificial disc is not for everyone. For patient's
who are not candidates for the artificial disc, the gold standard of
treatment for cervical degenerative disc disease or a cervical herniated
disc is an Anterior
Cervical Discectomy and Fusion.
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