Background

Electrical and electromagnetic principles form the basis for many applications routinely used in medicine today. Direct current, pulsed electromagnetic fields, capacitive and inductive couplings as well as ultrasound and

treatment with hyperbaric oxygen have been proven to stimulate bone growth, and are in use as an adjunctive treatment for fracture healing, deformities, non-unions or delayed unions and fusions.

Ortho-Ion has developed a device, Ortho-Ion Device (OID) that maintains a long-term very low current at a target site in a bone.

The Ortho-Ion device has clinical benefits in orthopedics, for example in non-union or delayed union healing where a low continuous current increases the union pace, in bone deformation often existent in Osteomyelitis patients, before and after debridement surgery to enhance bone healing, in maxillary bone deficient patients where bone growth is needed to enable dental implant insertion, and generally, in diverse cases of bone defects.