Which one? The DePuy rip off total, or the old DePuy reverse?
Douche
New stuff in development. Gotta admit, been pretty well a "me, too" company until now, but change is coming. Seeing innvoative projects underway to reduce costs and others to truly change the "game" on some shoulder fundamentals. May not quite achieve the level of "game changing" desired by Tornier management, but the effort is likely to result in new products that may not seem much different, yet adoption will follow. Wait and see...
It certainly didn't start off as a "me too" company. They had the most innovative shoulder design concept with the original Aequalis shoulder. However, since then, they have copied most everything.
How good is the tornier shoulder?
average
flex is me too
glenoid is depuy knock off w a spin
reverse baseplate and sphere are ancient compared to whats out there
new screw-in baseplate is a poor djo copy
anything for posterior or superior wear? nope. biomet, depuy, and exactech do right now.
maybe this stuff keeps docs from switching... but why would a doc switch from biomet, exactech or depuy to this?
wonder what zimmer is cooking up?
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-Plenty of reasons for a doc to go back to Tornier based on the Flex's design - bone sparing glenoid component, bone sparing humeral component, and a sales rep that actually knows about shoulder replacement vs. a knee/hip rep who moonlights as a shoulder specialist.
I don't care either way, I have just seen the new design and how it stacks up against the competition. I think the other companies are screwed if Tornier can get back to what it does best.....Shoulders!
-PerFORM glenoid allows for positioning away from current glenoid wear....
-I'm not sure that the Flex is "me too"......I haven't seen anything out there that with the same design rationale or instrumentation.
-The PerFORM glenoid may be similar, but with less bone loss due to matching the glenoid curvature resulting in less glenoid reaming
-RVD baseplate helps to prevent glenoid bone loss compared to Biomet's enormous post/screw...
-haven't seen the screw in baseplate that you're speaking of that would copy the DJO design
-PerFORM glenoid allows for positioning away from current glenoid wear....
-Plenty of reasons for a doc to go back to Tornier based on the Flex's design - bone sparing glenoid component, bone sparing humeral component, and a sales rep that actually knows about shoulder replacement vs. a knee/hip rep who moonlights as a shoulder specialist.
I don't care either way, I have just seen the new design and how it stacks up against the competition. I think the other companies are screwed if Tornier can get back to what it does best.....Shoulders!
Question: what percentage of conversions to reverses are started with a Hemi/fracture stem prosthesis? Tornier is missing a large part of the equation w the ascend flex...good concept but with no convertibility from their fracture stem they are missing the boat