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Abstract

Subjects are to provide a stand-alone artificial intervertebral disk which has flexible, nearly ideal, mechanical deformation properties and durability and is capable of being bonded and fixed to vertebral bodies at a high force and to provide an artificial-intervertebral-disk insertion jig with which the artificial intervertebral disk can be easily inserted and disposed between vertebrae without fail. The artificial intervertebral disk has a constitution comprising: a core material comprising a structure which is either a multiaxis three-dimensional woven structure or knit structure made of organic fibers arranged along three or more axes or a structure comprising a combination of the woven structure and the knit structure; and plates superposed respectively on the upper and lower sides of the core material, the plates being made of a biodegradable and bioabsorbable polymer containing bioactive bioceramic particles. Preferably, the plates have many perforations formed therein or the plates are ones in which the perforations are filled with a biodegradable and bioabsorbable material having bone conductivity and/or bone inductivity and having a high degradation rate. The insertion jig has a constitution comprising an upper jig and a lower jig, as a pair of jigs, which have been fitted to each other so as not to separate from each other in vertical directions and as to be capable of sliding against each other in back-and-forth directions, the upper jig and the lower jig having an upper holding part and a lower holding part which serve to hold an artificial intervertebral disk and have been formed as front parts of the upper jig and lower jig.

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