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Asian Spine Journal
Asian Spine Journal
405Responses to the Letter: Cervical Foraminal and Discal Height after Dynamic Rotational Plating in the Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Jin-Oh Park
1, Moon Soo Park
2, Seong-Hwan Moon
3, In-Sung Kim
2, Seok Woo Kim
2, Yong-Chan Kim
2, Tae-Hwan Kim
2, Bo-Kyung Suh
2, Ji Hoon Nam
2, Hwan-Mo Lee
31Department 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
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Received Oct 15, 2015; Accepted Oct 16, 2015 Corresponding author: Moon Soo Park
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Letter to the Editor Asian Spine J 2016;10(2):405-405 • http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2016.10.2.405
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I agree with you. You rightly pointed out the potential weakness of rotational dynamic plates. From your com- ment, most studies have been on translational dynamic plates, and unfortunately only a few studies have con- cerned 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 dy- namic motion than the static translational plates due to
the screw-bone interfaces of the rotational dynamic plates adding instability.
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