Profile: Biomet, Inc designs and manufactures products for hip replacement, knee replacement, shoulder replacement, elbow replacement & other small joint replacements. We are an ISO 9001 CE certified company. We offer products like joint replacement, sports medicine & dental implants. We encourage you to talk to your doctor about options that could help you get back to living and keep you active. If you have suffered from a sports related or other injury, we can help. Sports knee injuries and the available treatment options is the first step to making an informed decision about your healthcare and your quality of life. Our recommendation is to see an orthopedic physician who, after an examination, can give you the appropriate treatment options for your medical condition. Our Repicci II® implant system resurfaces only the damaged section of cartilage, thus saving a healthy cartilage. Our BioSymMetRic™ PIP fixator is a device that uses pins placed through the finger bone to stabilize complex finger fractures.
The company was founded in 1977, has revenues of > USD 1 Billion, has ~20 employees and is ISO 9001, CE certified. NASDAQ:BMET (SEC Filings)
FDA Registration Number: 1825034
• Surgical Orthopedic Scissors (FDA Code: HRR / 888.4540) An orthopedic manual surgical instrument is a nonpowered hand-held device intended for medical purposes to manipulate tissue, or for use with other devices in orthopedic surgery. This generic type of device includes the cerclage applier, awl, bender, drill brace, broach, burr, corkscrew, countersink, pin crimper, wire cutter, prosthesis driver, extractor, file, fork, needle holder, impactor, bending or contouring instrument, compression instrument, passer, socket positioner, probe, femoral neck punch, socket pusher, reamer, rongeur, scissors, screwdriver, bone skid, staple driver, bone screw starter, surgical stripper, tamp, bone tap, trephine, wire twister, and wrench. |
• Surgical Pliers (FDA Code: HTC / 878.4800) A manual surgical instrument for general use is a nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated device, either reusable or disposable, intended to be used in various general surgical procedures. The device includes the applicator, clip applier, biopsy brush, manual dermabrasion brush, scrub brush, cannula, ligature carrier, chisel, clamp, contractor, curette, cutter, dissector, elevator, skin graft expander, file, forceps, gouge, instrument guide, needle guide, hammer, hemostat, amputation hook, ligature passing and knot-tying instrument, knife, blood lancet, mallet, disposable or reusable aspiration and injection needle, disposable or reusable suturing needle, osteotome, pliers, rasp, retainer, retractor, saw, scalpel blade, scalpel handle, one-piece scalpel, snare, spatula, stapler, disposable or reusable stripper, stylet, suturing apparatus for the stomach and intestine, measuring tape, and calipers. A surgical instrument that has specialized uses in a specific medical specialty is classified in separate regulations in parts 868 through 892. |
• Surgical Punch (FDA Code: LRY / 878.4800) |
• Surgical Retractor (FDA Code: GAD / 878.4800) |
• Surgical Retractor Systems (FDA Code: GAD / 878.4800) |
• Surgical Stripper (FDA Code: HRT / 888.4540) |
• Surgical Suture Passers |
• Surgical Tables Accessories, Arm Supports Pad |
• Suture Anchors |
• Suture Passers |
• Suture Punches |
• Suture Retention Device (FDA Code: KGS / 878.4930) A suture retention device is a device, such as a retention bridge, a surgical button, or a suture bolster, intended to aid wound healing by distributing suture tension over a larger area in the patient. |
• Synthetic Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAN / 878.4830) An absorbable surgical gut suture, both plain and chromic, is an absorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from either the serosal connective tissue layer of beef (bovine) or the submucosal fibrous tissue of sheep (ovine) intestine, and is intended for use in soft tissue approximation. |
• Synthetic Bone Substitute |
• Table Operating Room Accessories (FDA Code: FWZ / 878.4950) A manual operating table and accessories and a manual operating chair and accessories are nonpowered devices, usually with movable components, intended to be used to support a patient during diagnostic examinations or surgical procedures. |
• Tamps (FDA Code: HXG / 888.4540) |
• Tapered Titanium Femoral Component |
• Templates (FDA Code: HWT / 888.4800) A template for clinical use is a device that consists of a pattern or guide intended for medical purposes, such as selecting or positioning orthopedic implants or guiding the marking of tissue before cutting. |
• Templating Systems |
• Temporary Training Splint (FDA Code: IQM / 890.3025) A prosthetic and orthotic accessory is a device intended for medical purposes to support, protect, or aid in the use of a cast, orthosis (brace), or prosthesis. Examples of prosthetic and orthotic accessories include the following: A pelvic support band and belt, a cast shoe, a cast bandage, a limb cover, a prosthesis alignment device, a postsurgical pylon, a transverse rotator, and a temporary training splint. |
• Thermal Back Supports |
• Thermo Plastic External Nasal Splint |
• Thoracic Orthosis, Brace (FDA Code: IPT / 890.3490) A truncal orthosis is a device intended for medical purposes to support or to immobilize fractures, strains, or sprains of the neck or trunk of the body. Examples of truncal orthoses are the following: Abdominal, cervical, cervical-thoracic, lumbar, lumbo-sacral, rib fracture, sacroiliac, and thoracic orthoses and clavicle splints. |
• Thoracotomy Arm Sling |
• Threaded Fixation Pin (FDA Code: JDW / 888.3040) A smooth or threaded metallic bone fixation fastener is a device intended to be implanted that consists of a stiff wire segment or rod made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum and stainless steel, and that may be smooth on the outside, fully or partially threaded, straight or U-shaped; and may be either blunt pointed, sharp pointed, or have a formed, slotted head on the end. It may be used for fixation of bone fractures, for bone reconstructions, as a guide pin for insertion of other implants, or it may be implanted through the skin so that a pulling force (traction) may be applied to the skeletal system. |
• Three-wheel Walkers & Accessories |
• Tibial Components |
• Tibial IM Nails |
• Tibial Inserts |
• Tibiocalcaneal Arthrodesis Nails |
• Tissue Engineering, Bone Products |
• Tissue Engineering, Delivery Systems |
• Tissue Engineering, Fixators |
• Tissue Engineering, Mixing Systems |
• Titanium Suture Anchors |
• Toilet Aids, Toilet Safety Arm Support |
• Total Knee Prosthesis |
• Total Knee Systems |
• Total Shoulder Systems |
• Traction Accessories (FDA Code: ILZ / 890.5925) A traction accessory is a nonpowered accessory device intended for medical purposes to be used with powered traction equipment to aid in exerting therapeutic pulling forces on the patient's body. This generic type of device includes the pulley, strap, head halter, and pelvic belt. |
• Traction Accessories, Leg Straps (FDA Code: ILZ / 890.5925) |
• Traction Head Halter (FDA Code: IRS / 890.5925) |
• Traction Head Halter (FDA Code: HSS / 888.5890) A noninvasive traction component is a device, such as a head halter, pelvic belt, or a traction splint, that does not penetrate the skin and is intended to assist in connecting a patient to a traction apparatus so that a therapeutic pulling force may be applied to the patient's body. |
• Traction Splint (FDA Code: HSP / 888.5890) |
• Traditional Bone Cements |
• Tube Pliers (FDA Code: FJO / 876.5540) A blood access device and accessories is a device intended to provide access to a patient's blood for hemodialysis or other chronic uses. When used in hemodialysis, it is part of an artificial kidney system for the treatment of patients with renal failure or toxemic conditions and provides access to a patient's blood for hemodialysis. The device includes implanted blood access devices, nonimplanted blood access devices, and accessories for both the implanted and nonimplanted blood access devices. |
• Tubular Elastic Bandage Retainer |
• Tubular Elastic Bandages & Nets |
• Ultrasonic Bone Cement Remover |
• Uncemented Metal/Polymer Semi-Constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: LWJ / 888.3360) A hip joint femoral (hemi-hip) metallic cemented or uncemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a portion of the hip joint. This generic type of device includes prostheses that have a femoral component made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum. This generic type of device includes designs which are intended to be fixed to the bone with bone cement (888.3027) as well as designs which have large window-like holes in the stem of the device and which are intended for use without bone cement. However, in these latter designs, fixation of the device is not achieved by means of bone ingrowth. |