Elite Surgical
Serving Bon Secours Mercy Health
Your back pain has been going on for months. Physical therapy helped at first, but it keeps coming back. An MRI shows a disc that won't heal on its own, and your doctor is talking about fusion. When people in Bon Secours Mercy Health search for the best spine fusion specialist near them, Elite Surgical is the practice that picks up the phone.
If you are facing fusion, ask your surgeon about the bone graft. The old way harvests bone from your hip, which means a second surgery site and more pain. ACTIFUSE Bone Graft Substitute avoids that. It is a synthetic scaffold your body remodels into real bone. In a Johns Hopkins review of 694 patients, 93% fused, the same as the top product, with less reported back pain. We use ACTIFUSE in our Bon Secours Mercy Health surgeries, in the SHAPE or FLOW format that fits your anatomy.
Common Question in Bon Secours Mercy Health
Cost of bone graft substitute per spine fusion level
In Ohio’s value-based care environment, the sticker price of a synthetic graft tells only half the story. You also avoid the OR time, donor site pain, and readmission risk tied to iliac crest harvest. Ask your rep for a cost-per-fusion analysis that accounts for complication avoidance, especially if you’re standardizing across multiple Bon Secours Mercy Health campuses.
Call Elite Surgical at (440) 488-0091.
Trusted Partners
Elite Surgical is on contract with Bon Secours Mercy Health, the system behind the Mercy hospitals across Ohio and Kentucky, including Mercy Cincinnati, Mercy Fairfield and Mercy Anderson. The ACTIFUSE catalog number is in the system: any Mercy surgeon can order it without a new approval.
Baxter Healthcare
PartnerStrategic partnership powering Elite Surgical's innovative bone graft solutions
Why You Can Trust Us
Authorized distributor of Baxter ACTIFUSE93% fusion across 694 patients, independent reviewFDA cleared and used in US spine surgery since 2007In the OR with your surgeon, OH MI IN and Pittsburgh
Our Services
Fracture RepairBone void filling in fracture repair: tibial plateau, distal radius, calcaneus and other defects packed with ACTIFUSE alongside the surgeon’s fixation. Fills the gap trauma leaves behind so new bone has a path across it. Used with appropriate stabilizing hardware; not for load-bearing use on its own.
Bone Cysts & Benign LesionsFilling the void after curettage of benign bone cysts and lesions, delivered open or through the ACTIFUSE MIS applicator for small corridors. The defect fills with scaffold that resorbs as new bone replaces it.
Hip & Knee RevisionFilling bone loss in revision joint surgery: acetabular and femoral defects, tibial defects behind failed knee components. ACTIFUSE packs contained defects with an 80% porous scaffold that remodels into the patient’s own bone as the revision heals.
Spine FusionACTIFUSE bone graft for posterolateral spinal fusion with instrumentation, used on-label. 93% fusion across 694 patients in an independent Johns Hopkins review, the same rate as BMP-2, with less reported back pain in the randomized trial and no bone harvested from the hip. The deepest evidence base in our line.
Foot & Ankle FusionBone grafting for ankle and hindfoot fusion: tibiotalar, subtalar and midfoot arthrodesis. ACTIFUSE fills the fusion site with a scaffold your body replaces with real bone, without harvesting from the hip or heel. Anatomy-specific published experience includes a 24-patient tibiotalar series using SiCaP.
Our Products
ALTAPORE MIS SystemApplicator-based delivery of ALTAPORE for minimally invasive and deep-corridor placement, using the same controlled trigger delivery approach as the ACTIFUSE MIS System.
ACTIFUSE FLOWACTIFUSE in a flowable delivery format for precise placement into narrow bony voids and around instrumentation where a moldable brick will not reach.
ACTIFUSE MISPistol-grip applicator preloaded with ACTIFUSE ABX for open and minimally invasive procedures. 200 mm working length, 8 mm outside diameter, 7.5 mL cartridge delivering 0.5 mL per full trigger squeeze, with bayonet-fit refill cartridges swappable mid-case. Controlled delivery into deep corridors where finger packing is not an option.
ACTIFUSE ABXSculptable ACTIFUSE putty in a preloaded syringe, ready on opening, sizes 1.5 mL to 20 mL. Designed for standalone use; may be combined with sterile saline, autologous blood or bone marrow aspirate at the surgeon’s discretion per the Instructions for Use.
ACTIFUSE SHAPEPreformed moldable ACTIFUSE in cylinders and strips (1.6 mL to 15.8 mL) that can be shaped to the contours of the defect and resist irrigation. Cold, it holds firm; a gentle squeeze extends it to span multiple levels in the posterolateral gutter. The format surgeons reach for in open posterior fusion.
ALTAPORE Bioactive Bone GraftBaxter’s newer-generation silicate-substituted calcium phosphate with enhanced strut porosity. Same material class as ACTIFUSE, studied in spinal fusion within the 2020 Johns Hopkins meta-analysis subgroup. Osteoconductive bone void filler; not for load-bearing use.
ALTAPORE SHAPEMoldable preformed ALTAPORE for shaping to the defect in open procedures, with the handling of the SHAPE format on the enhanced-porosity ALTAPORE scaffold.
ACTIFUSE Bone Graft SubstituteSilicate-substituted calcium phosphate granules with 0.8 wt% chemically bound silicon and 80% interconnected porosity. The core ACTIFUSE material: an osteoconductive scaffold that resorbs and is replaced by bone during healing. FDA cleared bone void filler for orthopedic use including posterolateral spinal fusion with appropriate hardware. Not for load-bearing use.
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Read more →Common situations in Bon Secours Mercy Health
Specific situations we go deeper on for Bon Secours Mercy Health. Tap one to see the full answer.
Spine Fusion
Bone graft pain at hip harvest site
Medical equipment supplier
Bone graft substitute delivery system clogging
Foot & Ankle Fusion
Bone graft not remodeling on follow-up CT
Fracture Repair
Large bone void in tibial plateau fracture
Fracture Repair
Weight bearing after tibial plateau fracture repair with synthetic graft
Fracture Repair
Synthetic bone graft in open fracture with contamination
Hip & Knee Revision
Cost of bone graft substitute for revision hip or knee
Hip & Knee Revision
Weight bearing after revision knee bone grafting
Medical equipment supplier
How to choose bone graft substitute for spine fusion
Foot & Ankle Fusion
How much does a bone graft substitute cost for an ankle fusion
Medical equipment supplier
Autograft vs synthetic bone graft substitute
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How long does bone graft substitute take to fuse