Tobra Bone Basket | Autograft Collector for Spine Surgery

Tobra Bone Basket^®

The Tobra Bone Basket is an autograft collector for spine surgery. It captures bone from the high-speed drill, then its built-in compressor presses out blood and fluid so the graft is ready to pack. It is also used in neurosurgery and sports medicine.

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How the Tobra Bone Basket works

Tobra Bone Basket in line on suction tubing

1. It sits in line on the suction tubing. Nothing goes on the surgeon’s hand.

2. A fine mesh filter catches bone from the high-speed drill, down to bone dust.

Tobra Bone Basket built-in graft compressor

3. The built-in compressor presses out blood and fluid as it collects.

Dry, putty-like autograft in the Tobra Bone Basket

4. Open the top and scoop out dry, putty-like graft. No need to disconnect.

Where it’s used

Spine: lumbar fusion, cervical fusion, corpectomy, MIS TLIF, standalone laminectomy, posterior cervical
Cranial: MVD, cranioplasty, bur holes, kerf cuts
ENT: mastoidectomy
Ortho: ACL, ankle fusion, rotator cuff augmentation

Typical bone collected

Case	Typical amount
Lumbar fusion	7 to 10+ cc per level
MIS TLIF	5 to 7 cc per level
ACDF	1 to 3 cc per level, enough for the cage

Amounts depend on how much bone is drilled.

Graft collected with the Tobra Bone Basket

The evidence

Edwards TLIF study. In a 200-patient TLIF study at Summit Brain, Spine and Orthopedics, average graft cost per case dropped from $817 to $267, a 67% drop. Cases needing biologics fell from 92.7% to 19.2%. Single-site study. Read the full study

Bone dust is a living graft. In lab testing, growth factors released by spinal bone dust increased bone-building cell growth 7-fold. The authors say spine surgeons should be encouraged to recycle bone dust as a free autologous graft. Gao et al., Spine 2018

Patient’s own bone. Autograft carries no risk of disease transmission or immune rejection. Gao et al., Spine 2018

Download the Tobra Bone Basket brochure (PDF, 2 pages)