Integra has completed their internal investigation on december 27, 2017.Results: dhr review; no lot number was provided for the trial; however, all records available for this part number were reviewed to ensure that lots had been inspected visually and passed for the ¿trial¿ laser etch.This was confirmed.Complaints history; a query in the short description field for trial and implanted showed no previous results of a trial being implanted.From 2012 to present (october 2017), there have been 8,934 mba surgeries performed.This represents (b)(4) overall failure rate.Conclusion: based on the information to date, the root cause appears to be user error as the surgeon implanted the trial.The surgical technique for the mba system states that the trial should be removed following determination of the appropriate sized trial implant, and the failure analysis shows that there is identification of a trial part as a trial.
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