ExactechGPS: Guided Personalized Surgery Takes Main Stage Among Exactech’s Orthopaedic Innovations at AAOS 2014 Annual Meeting in New Orleans

Exactech, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXAC), a developer and producer of bone and joint restoration products for hip, knee, shoulder, spine and biologic materials, announced today its line up of products to be unveiled at the company’s newly designed educational exhibit, booth #2261, at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2014 Annual Meeting March 11 – 15 in New Orleans, LA.

Exactech Knee

Exactech celebrates 20 years of Exactech Knee, a system that has demonstrated performance over time with its proven design, proprietary materials and excellent long-term clinical results.1

The company commemorates this milestone with full market introduction of ExactechGPS® Guided Personalized Surgery, the first advanced surgical technology to provide a real-time patient-specific solution in total knee arthroplasty. With a touch screen in the sterile field, ExactechGPS puts real-time visual guidance and alignment data at the surgeon’s fingertips. Customized for surgeon preferences, ExactechGPS is a powerful addition to the surgical team in addressing their goals of efficacy, efficiency and economics.

The cornerstone of Exactech’s newly designed exhibit is a surgical skills demonstration area that will allow surgeons to gain hands-on experience with ExactechGPS and the Optetrak Logic® knee system.

Exactech Shoulder

Nine years of clinical use and 32 peer-reviewed studies demonstrate that Exactech had it “Right from the Start.” Now is the perfect time to learn more about the industry’s fastest growing shoulder system, Exactech’s Equinoxe® Platform Shoulder System. The Equinoxe System delivers innovative solutions to clinical challenges. Throughout the AAOS exhibit time, design team surgeons and key clinicians will be on hand to share their experiences and provide product and instrument demonstrations.

Be among the first to see the latest addition to the Equinoxe product family -- the new Resurfacing Humeral Head, which offers modularity, anatomic sizing and low profile instrumentation for cuff and anatomic preserving approaches in reverse shoulder surgeries.

Exactech Hip

The Exactech Hip portfolio expands its scope of solutions for primary hip reconstruction with introduction of LPI Prime. This femoral stem leverages the proven features of a conventional stem but is designed to preserve more bone.2 The LPI Prime system includes specialized instrumentation contained within one tray, designed for efficiency in any surgical approach.

Exactech Power Equipment

Exactech introduces an updated version of its AcuDriver®Automated Osteotome System, an air-driven impact handpiece with precision osteotomes in various sizes for use in revision surgeries. Live demonstrations available at the Exactech booth’s surgical skills laboratory.

Exactech Spacer

Exactech’s Interspace® bone cement spacer continues to be the most widely-studied antibiotic spacer technology in the world with a 96.1 percent eradication rate.3

Exactech Spine

Exactech Spine is among the fastest growing spine organizations, developing innovative spinal and orthobiologics solutions to restore spine health. New at AAOS is the AcapellaTM One Cervical Spacer System. Offered in a variety of heights, footprints, and lordotic angles to accommodate varying anatomical conditions, Acapella One features single-step implantation with an integrated locking mechanism. Additionally, with the introduction of the Gibralt® Occipital Plate to the Gibralt Spinal System, Exactech provides spinal fusion solutions for the full spine from the occiput, or the back portion of the skull, to the sacrum, the bone at the base of the spine.

Exactech Biologics

Exactech recognizes the growing importance of biologic solutions for orthopaedics. Come by the Exactech booth to learn about:

• Optecure® bone matrix and the flexibility of combining with saline, blood, autogenous bone marrow and autologous bone graft.
• Accelerate® Concentrating System: Designed for the safe and rapid preparation of autologous platelet rich plasma (PRP) from a small sample of blood at the patient’s point of care.

There’s an App for That

For the latest on activities at Exactech’s newly designed educational exhibit, Booth #2261 at the AAOS 2014 Annual Meeting, including a schedule of demonstrations and a schedule of faculty available for “Ask the Expert” exchanges, surgeons can download an event app from Exactech’s web page http://www.exac.com/academy.

About Exactech

Based in Gainesville, Fla., Exactech develops and markets orthopaedic implant devices, related surgical instruments and biologic materials and services to hospitals and physicians. The company manufactures many of its orthopaedic devices at its Gainesville facility. Exactech’s orthopaedic products are used in the restoration of bones and joints that have deteriorated as a result of injury or diseases such as arthritis. Exactech markets its products in the United States, in addition to more than 30 markets in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. Additional information about Exactech, Inc. can be found at http://www.exac.com. Copies of Exactech’s press releases, SEC filings, current price quotes and other valuable information for investors may be found at http://www.exac.com and http://www.hawkassociates.com.

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This release contains various forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which represent the company’s expectations or beliefs concerning future events of the company’s financial performance. These forward-looking statements are further qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include the effect of competitive pricing, the company’s dependence on the ability of third party manufacturers to produce components on a basis which is cost-effective to the company, market acceptance of the company’s products and the effects of government regulation. Results actually achieved may differ materially from expected results included in these statements.

References

1 Data on file at Exactech, Inc. Exactech Knee Literature Review.

2 Data on file at Exactech (TR-2013-036 and TR-2013-037).

3 InterSpace®-Bibliographies and references on file at Exactech, Inc. Eradication rate at last follow-up. Interspace® is produced by Tecres S.p.A., Italy and distributed in North America by Exactech.