Your surgeon told you a fusion is the next step. Maybe it's your lower back, maybe your ankle joint that won't stop grinding. The graft that bridges the bones matters as much as the hardware. In University Hospitals Cleveland, you want the option that heals strong without a second surgery to harvest bone from your hip. When people search for the best bone graft near me, Elite Surgical is the name behind the graft your surgeon reaches for.
If a fusion is on the table, ask your surgeon about the bone graft material. Do not let anyone take bone from your hip unless there is no other way. The graft itself should be a scaffold your body replaces with its own real bone over time. In a Johns Hopkins review of 694 patients, ACTIFUSE matched the fusion rate of BMP-2 and caused less reported back pain. We make ACTIFUSE so your surgeon fills the fusion site through one incision. No hip harvesting. No second recovery site.
Bone graft substitute not integrating properly
Follow-up imaging at University Hospitals Cleveland may show gaps or poor bridging when the graft material lacks enough porosity. Low porosity and weak bioactivity slow bone ingrowth and vascularization. Switch to a silicate-substituted calcium phosphate with at least 80% porosity, like ACTIFUSE or ALTAPORE.
Call Elite Surgical at (440) 488-0091.
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ACTIFUSE is on contract and in active use across the University Hospitals system, including UH Cleveland Medical Center and UH St. John. Dr. Robert Berkowitz has used it here since 2014, more than 2,000 patients fused. If your spine surgery is at UH, the graft is already in the system: ask your surgeon about ACTIFUSE by name.
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