1.   American Home Products is also evaluating BMP II in dental surgeries for bone regrowth below the gum line as well as for spinal fusion.

2.   A month after his injury, surgeons performed a spinal fusion, using a piece of his hipbone to repair his damaged neck.

3.   Currently surgeons may opt to use a spinal fusion cage, traditional plates and pins, or just graft the bone onto bone with no supporting device.

4.   Except for a couple of teens who were having spinal fusion surgery and insisted on rock music, patients responded well to the music, she says.

5.   First approved just a year ago, spinal fusion cages offer a less invasive tool for fusing together back bones after a serious spinal injury.

6.   Last September, Jeremy had a spinal fusion done by fastening metal rods on either side of his spine.

7.   Leave it to Mark Martin to describe the quality of his life before he underwent spinal fusion surgery last November.

8.   Sofamor Danek tried to convince a skeptical government panel that its spinal fusion cage is a safe addition to the tools surgeons can use in corrective spinal operations.

9.   Sofamor Danek tried to convince an expert government panel that its spinal fusion cage is a safe addition to the tools surgeons can use in corrective spinal operations.

10.   Spinal fusion cages are generally used in lower back surgeries, often a last stage treatment for a degenerative disc -which left untreated causes unbearable pain.