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36 Sign up for Becker's Orthopedic, Spine Business & Pain Management E-Weeklies at www.BeckersOrthopedicandSpine.com or call (800) 417-2035 of the company's XL TDR device designed to treat degenerative disc disease. NuVasive has offices in Australia, Japan, Singapore, UK, Germany, Puerto Rico, Paramus and the United States. Pioneer Surgical Technology, based in Marquette, Mich., was founded by Matthew Songer, MD, when he created the Songer Spinal Cable. Pioneer Surgical Technology now provides devices for the spine, orthopedic, cardiothoracic and biologics fields. The company currently offers cervical, thoracolumbar, lateral and specialty instruments to service the spine market. The company's NuNec Cervical Disc Arthroplasty reached 2,000 successful implantations last year. Pioneer Surgical Technology approaches all of their products from a vertical integration standpoint, aiming to take an idea from the design stage to the final stages of packaging. Precision Spine, Inc. is a medical device company based in Parsippany, New Jersey, that is led by CEO James Pastena and President Richard Dickerson, both industry veterans. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Spinal USA, Inc., and Precision Medical, Inc., the company provides a broad range of implants, interbody devices, biologics, and spinal bracing products to hospitals, neurosurgeons, and orthopedic surgeons worldwide. Many of its specialized surgical systems address the unique challenges of cervical and thoracolumbar spine procedures. These include the ReForm Pedicle Screw System, which features an advanced design that was cleared by the FDA in August of 2012 for use in degenerative and deformity correction surgery, and the Mini‑Max™ Spine System, which was cleared by the FDA in December 2012 for use in minimally invasive procedures. The company's research and development efforts have demonstrated a focus on next-generation products. Most recently, these efforts resulted in a partner- ship with Stephen Cook, Ph.D., the Executive Director and Chief Scientist at the Fellowship of Orthopaedic Researchers in Metairie, Louisiana, to develop spinal implants that incorporate advanced magnetic technologies. SI-BONE, based in San Jose, Calif., is a medical device company that began as an offshoot of INBONE Technologies, which produced the ENDO-FUSE Intra-Osseos Fusion System. SI-BONE focuses on providing minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of the sacroiliac joint. The company's iFuse Implant System is designed to provide an alternative to the traditional SI joint fixation and fusion treatments of degenerative sacroiliitis and sacroiliac joint disruption. The iFuse Implant System received FDA 510(k) clearance in 2011 after undergoing significant changes. In 2012, the company announced that 5,000 patients had been treated with the iFuse Implant System. SI-BONE is managed by a combination of executives from orthopedic and spine companies including INBONE, Medtronic and Kyphon. Spinal Elements, headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., designs and markets products for the spine industry. The company was founded in 2003 and received its first product clearances a year later for Lucent and Crystal. Lucent is a lumbar interbody system and Crystal is a PEEK cervical interbody system. Since then the company's product line has expanded to include the MOSAIC cervical implant system, SAPPHIRE anterior cervical plate system, LOTUS posterior cervical-thoracic fixation system and five lumbar systems in addition to LOTUS. The company has also opened a biologics product line with the HERO ALLOGRAFT. The net proceeds from HERO ALLOGRAFT sales are donated to charities that support children with life-threatening medical conditions. Spineart has offices in Geneva, Switzerland, Irvine, Calif., and New York. The company develops and delivers fusion, motion and MIS implants to the spine industry. The company's motion implants include the Baguera Cervical Disc Prosthesis, the Baguera Lumbar Disc Prosthesis and the Yoda Dynamic Posterior Device. Spineart fusion products include the Juliet PLIF and ALIF Cages, Romeo 2 Posterior Osteosynthesis, Tryptik Cervical Modular Cage-Lift, Tryptik Cervical Cage, Tryptik Cervical Plate and Tryptik Cervical Laminoplasty Staple. The Spineart MIS devices include the Romeo 2 Posterior Axel Device, Romeo 2 Minimally Invasive System, Juliet Olif Cage and Juliet TLIF Cage. Spineart recently announced that 8,200 of its Baguera Cervical Disc Prostheses have been implanted worldwide. SpineGuard, headquartered in St. Mandé, France and San Francisco, focuses on its line of PediGuard products, which includes Classic PediGuard, Curved PediGuard and Cannulated PediGuard. PediGuard is a handheld, wireless pedicle probe designed to ensure safe pedicle screw placement. The device uses the electrical conductivity of tissue to warn surgeons of possible vertebral cortex perforations during pedicle screw placement. Various clinical trials conducted on the device have found 97 percent screw placement accuracy, 15 percent of time saved during screw placement and 25 to 30 percent reduction of patient exposure to radiation during pedicle screw placement. In July 2012, SpineGuard reported 20,000 spine procedures had been performed with the use of PediGuard. Spine Frontier, headquartered in Beverly, Mass., is a medical device company that was created by spine surgeon Kingsley R. Chin, MD, and began with the launch of the FacetFuse screws. 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