Abstract: A spinal assembly plate. The plate can have an uninterrupted passage to accommodate a portion of a vertebral screw there through at a non-predetermined location of the plate. An apparatus can be included with sidewalls to secure the plate there between. Another apparatus can be included with a face having a frictional character to longitudinally stabilize the apparatus to the plate. A spinal assembly can be included having a vertebral screw, a spinal plate, an apparatus to secure the vertebral screw, and a connector brace to stabilize the plate. In a method of the invention, a vertebral screw can be placed through an opening of a connector brace and into a vertebral body of a patient wherein the brace includes sidewalls to stabilize a spinal plate.

Abstract: A spinal assembly plate. The plate can have an uninterrupted passage to accommodate a portion of a vertebral screw there through at a non-predetermined location of the plate. An apparatus can be included with sidewalls to secure the plate there between. Another apparatus can be included with a face having a frictional character to longitudinally stabilize the apparatus to the plate. A spinal assembly can be included having a vertebral screw, a spinal plate, an apparatus to secure the vertebral screw, and a connector brace to stabilize the plate. In a method of the invention, a vertebral screw can be placed through an opening of a connector brace and into a vertebral body of a patient wherein the brace includes sidewalls to stabilize a spinal plate.