SmartTRAK spotlights OSSIO in an interview at AANA 2025 in Washington, DC.
Bryan Jones, vice president of marketing and medical education at OSSIO, discusses the company’s novel bio-integrative OSSIOfiber implants in an interview with SmartTRAK at the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) 2025 Meeting in Washington DC.
Watch the following video to learn more about OSSIO and its novel technology. (17:50 min.) A link to download a complete transcript of the interview is also provided below.
Hey everybody, it's Andy Knapik, senior analyst with SmartTRAK covering sports medicine arthroscopy. I'm here at the AANA meeting in Washington, DC, and right now I'm joined by Bryan Jones, an old friend of mine who is now what, VP of marketing, right?
Bryan Jones: Yes.
For OSSIO. And OSSIO is really this great up-and-coming company. We've profiled them in the past, and I think their products are really incredible and the things that they're doing are really amazing. When you first joined OSSIO you came to me and said ‘Hey, you need to come check this out. This stuff's really cool.’ So I went and looked at it and the first thing I see is these kind of bioabsorbable pins, which 25 years ago I started my career by selling Bionix, which is absorbable pins and screws and stuff. Back then you could bend the pins. They were never all that sturdy. So, when you first talked to me about this I was a little dubious, and then I put my hands on one and you couldn't bend it, couldn't bend it at all. And I thought ‘Well, that's really interesting.’ And then you guys came out with a compression staple, which is completely amazing.
BJ: Yeah, right.
The only one on the market, right?
BJ: Only one in the world. Yes, the only non-permanent compression staple ever.
So talk to me about just about OSSIO, about the product. What makes OSSIO products as good as they are?
BJ: Yes. I'll touch on where you started when you said you and I first met probably what, six years ago now? And your initial reaction is probably like 10,000 other reactions that we got back then. The hardest thing we ever had to do was convince people that this was not a typical biocomposite or bioabsorbable implant. That was the hardest hurdle. To do that, we had to really tell them about ...
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