Product Overview
The Polarus 3 Solution offers enhanced features in both plate and instrumentation design. Polarus 3 offers Posterior Plates to capture greater tuberosity fragments, as well as Standard Plates for less complex fractures in the humeral head. Both plate families offer multiple suture holes, medial calcar support holes, and a variety of lengths. Both plate families offer multiple suture holes and medial calcar support holes. Standard Plate lengths range from 94 mm to 275 mm; Posterior Plate is 94 mm or 115 mm.
Additional Features Include:
• Lower plate placement designed to avoid subacromial impingement.
• Left/right specific plates are anatomically precontoured.
• Low-profile plate design allows the plate to be as thin as possible while maintaining strength and allowing screw heads to sit flush with the surface of the plate.
• Converging and diverging screw patterns are intended to provide different options in screw placement as well as multiple points of fixation.
• Suture undercuts are provided for ease of passing suture needles underneath the plate.
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