Paragraph Number

9

One general aspect includes a bone plate that may include: a recess bounded by a rim; and a pair of screw openings; a rotatable structure coupled to the bone plate such that the rotatable structure is rotatable, within the recess, between a locked orientation and an unlocked orientation, the rotatable structure may include: a pair of opposed arms, each of which is adapted to retain a screw positioned within one of the pair of screw openings when the rotatable structure is in the locked orientation, thereby restricting back-out of the screw; and a drive feature adapted to receive torque from a driver to rotate the rotatable structure between the locked orientation and the unlocked orientation. The implant also includes where the bone plate and the rotatable structure cooperate to define a detent mechanism adapted to retain the rotatable structure in the locked orientation, the detent mechanism may include: a niche defined in one of the rim and the rotatable structure; and an ear defined in the other of the rim and the rotatable structure, where the ear is sized to be received in the niche.

Added by DJM 5 2021