If the movement is enough to create a false
joint, then a second (revision) surgery may be needed. The surgeon will decide what's best based on your symptoms and the results of X-rays, but anterior revision surgery is one option. Bone chips or slices of bone are taken from yours pelvic area and used as a graft. A
metal plate may also be inserted along the front of the spine between C5-6-7. I know that there’s a fairly high rate of nonunion with anterior ACDF revision.
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