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When asked about the paper, the study's senior author, Dr. Khoi Than, said, "Hundreds of thousands of PEEK implants are placed in patients' necks every year, and our work verifies my suspicion that many of them are not healing. I would encourage my fellow surgeons to consider using structural allograft instead of PEEK, despite the lower reimbursement, as the former is clearly the better option for our patients."

The authors found radiographic evidence of pseudarthrosis in 29 (52%) of the 56 patients with PEEK implants and in 7 (10%) of the 71 patients with structural allografts. They also found repeated surgery was warranted in 7 patients (24%) with PEEK implants and in only 1 patient (14%) with a structural allograft. These findings show that when used in a single-level ACDF, PEEK implants were associated with a significantly higher rate of bone nonunion (lack of new bone growth) and a significantly higher rate of the need for additional surgery than structural allografts.

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-pseudarthrosis-single-level-acdf-peek-interbody.html