CONTENTS

ADVANTAGES

• Ability to compress fractures and hold rotation with screws, transfixing both cortices of the bone and nail.
  
• Oblique 4.6mm holes in one end in the standard nail, allow for 4.5mm compression screws up the neck of the femur.
  
• Nail does not usually require removal.
  
• Top of nail recessed in trochanter.
  
• Minimal reaming to 13mm for 12.5mm nail.
  
• Square cross section allows for medullary blood supply to regenerate.
  
• Completely biocompatible.
  
• Modulus of elasticity half that of stainless steel and chrome cobalt.
  
• Stronger than most other implants with symmetrical cortical compression obtained with the nail and screws.
  
• Three diameters of nail available.
  
• Unique jig makes X-ray control or special operating table for shaft fractures unnecessary.
  
• Nail (12.5mm) is 1.1 to 1.8 times stronger than the average femoral shaft with three screws equal to strength of nail.
  
• Ability to be full weight-bearing immediately postoperatively in most cases.
  
• Union usually in 2-6 months, even in previously established non-union.
  
• Nail has been extensively tested and used successfully in over one thousand patients since 1971.
  
• Nail has F.D.A. approval to market.