[[Lanterna]] Medical Technologies maintains its head office and operations in St. Gallen, Switzerland. 

LANTERNA is focused on designing, manufacturing and marketing GENERIC implants for the surgical 
treatment of spinal disease. 

{{ http://www.lanternamedtech.com/media/bakery/images/item12/Facet-Resurfacing-Sytem.jpg}}The [[FENIX]] ™ facet resurfacing technique might be considered in the future as surgical treatment of well selected patients suffering from chronic low back pain due to [[lumbar facet joint degeneration]]. A modification of the superior implant should provide an initial firm fixation preventing implant dislocation 
((Van de Kelft E. Lumbar Facet Resurfacing: First Experience With the FENIX™
Implant. J Spinal Disord Tech. 2013 Nov 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID:
23563335.)).