Surgical Report: Early ALPS-II Case in USA

by | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog, News, Newsletter

Big thanks to Dr. John Owen at Yellow Creek Animal Hospital in Akron, Ohio for sending us radiographs of one of the very first ALPS-II plates implanted in the United States!  Patient: 12 year old Newfoundland Mix History: Patient got loose and was found with...

Inside KYON: Manufacturing

by | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog, News, Newsletter

On December 6th, we took a field trip to one of our manufacturers in Switzerland so that newer KYON employees (and our US team) had a chance to see how our implants are made and meet the people who make them. We use only titanium and titanium alloys for our implants,...

ALPS-II Beads

by | Nov 22, 2019 | Blog, News, Newsletter

ALPS® Technology is based on PC-Fix, which was developed at the AO Research Institute in Davos in the 1980s and 90s. PC-Fix had exceptionally positive results in a trial with close to 2,000 human patients, thanks to the geometry of the plate and the use of titanium...

Events: ACVS 2019

by | Oct 14, 2019 | Blog, News, Uncategorized

  We’ve got a lot of exciting things to share with you at the ACVS Surgery Summit this year. We are launching the ALPS® Product Range, including the first look at the highly anticipated ALPS-II.     Want to see what we’ve got going...

Interview with Dr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, JCVS

by | Oct 11, 2019 | ALPS, Blog, News

From a young age, Dr. Yamaguchi’s father taught him that all life is precious and deserves to be cared for. As a child his family had cats, and almost every weekend his dad took him up into the the mountains and taught him about the wildlife they encountered. This was...