Small Bone Locking Plate for the Hand, Titanium

Hand fractures punish imprecise hardware. The metacarpals and phalanges are short, the fragments are small, and the extensor tendons glide directly over the bone, so a plate that is too thick or too wide quickly turns into stiffness. Implants for the hand have to be designed for the hand, at a scale that respects both the bone and the soft tissue around it.

The small bone locking plate range answers with straight plates for shaft fractures and eccentric geometries that place screws where periarticular fragments leave room for them. Locking holes give fixed-angle hold in cancellous bone that offers little thread purchase. As always in hand trauma, fracture assessment and the decision between plate, screw or conservative treatment rest with the operating surgeon.

Plates are contoured to sit on the dorsal or lateral surface of the metacarpal or phalanx and are fixed with the locking screws of the F3 system. Geometry is selected against the fracture site: straight plates bridge shaft patterns, while eccentric plates shift screw placement toward the fragment side of the line.

The eight-number range is held as original factory product in the BoneCraft warehouse, dispatched in sealed manufacturer packaging with lot references recorded on the delivery documentation.