Responses to the Letter: Cervical Foraminal and Discal Height after Dynamic Rotational Plating in the Cervical Discectomy and Fusion

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Asian Spine J. 2016;10(2):405-405
Publication date (electronic) : 2016 April 15
doi : https://doi.org/10.4184/asj.2016.10.2.405
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin, Korea.
2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Korea.
3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Corresponding author: Moon Soo Park. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, 22 Gwanpyeong-ro 170beon-gil, Dongan-gu, Anyang 14068, Korea. Tel: +82-31-380-6000, Fax: +82-31-380-6008, amhangpark@gmail.com
Received 2015 October 15; Accepted 2015 October 16.

I agree with you. You rightly pointed out the potential weakness of rotational dynamic plates. From your comment, most studies have been on translational dynamic plates, and unfortunately only a few studies have concerned the use of rotational dynamic plates. My guess is that the rotational dynamic plates may have less dynamic motion than the translational ones and with more dynamic motion than the static translational plates due to the screw-bone interfaces of the rotational dynamic plates adding instability.

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