The first Interfuse Case in November of 2016. To date, Dr Russell has implanted over 300 Interfuse implants. Biomechanical and clinical studies have reported improvement of the construct stability with expansion of the interbody cage footprint which allows the cage to be based on the strong peripheral endplate ring.

The primary advantage of Interfuse is the ability to get an anterior footprint through a unilateral approach. That above and beyond anything else is the true advantage of this operation. It’s just a much smoother, safer procedure with less retraction on the nerves and less blood loss.

With Interfuse, I don’t have to expose both sides of the disk space, there’s less trauma to the nerve, less chance of dural tear, and less blood loss with its unilateral approach. There really aren’t any tricks to this procedure. It’s very straightforward, and if you can do a PLIF or a TLIF, you could very easily do an Interfuse Interbody Fusion.