Patients have two options: Artificial cervical disc replacement Cervical fusion In 2007, the FDA approved the first artificial disc, the Prestige Cervical disc, which looks and moves much like the ...

Cervical fusion remains one of the most-performed cervical spine procedures done even as other techniques have gained prominence. Five notes: 1. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusions have been the ...

This is followed by a bone graft or insertion of a titanium mesh cage (TMC ... improved TMC still risk losing motion of the cervical joints. “Fusion still takes away the motion of the ...