At PHACON, we strive for continuous improvement. Since our inception, PHACON’s primary objective has been to enhance the quality of our patients and trainers, by tailoring our products to meet the requirements of our clients. Explore the advanced timeline of PHACON’s history and our products.
We continue to innovate by sharing our technologies and collaborating with medical experts to create new and improved artificial patients, such as developing our first cavity chest model.
Developed a Temporal Bone Artificial Patient specifically designed for Eli Lilly's inner ear therapy drug.
Designed and developed a new gastro case for endoscopy commissioned by Cook Medical.
Secured further international presence by attending the IMSH, ORL-HNS, AAO-HSNF and NASS conferences worldwide.
PHACON now has an extensive catalog of spine, orbital, temporal bone, sinus, throat, orthopedic, vascular, orthognathic, implantology, and dental patients of different ages, characteristics and pathologies.
Continuously updating our catalogue and innovating our patients.
Development of the PHACON app with Augmented Reality technology.
Attended and supplied booths with our products at ISMH, COSM, and AAO-HSNF conferences in the US.
Released new PHACON Spine Patients "Kramer" and "Vogel", anatomies of 12- and 11-year-old patients with pathologies.
Start of development of a new multimodal digital training for neurosurgery alongside the Department of Neurosurgery at Leipzig University Hospital.
Equipped a sinus training course in Ukraine.
Enhancing and improving our first Orthopedics PHACON Lower Leg Patient "Herrmann," designed for fasciotomy.
Designed a PHACON Bone Block allows you to test your tools and products. This model includes cortical and cancellous bone with characteristics of a real bone.
PHACON US moves its headquarters to Druid Chase, 2801 Buford Hwy, Atlanta.
PHACON GmbH moves its headquarters to Leipzig, Druckereistraße.
New product features the PHACON COVID Assistant, to train proper sample collections.
Provided the equipment for an IRDC Leipzig course on FESS operation using PHACON Sinus Patients.
PHACON relaunches its logo.
The WORLD HEARING CENTER in Poland receives 18 PHACON trainers with over 100 PHACON patients from the fields of ENT (temporal bone, sinus & throat) for the training and further education of international, renowned doctors and specialists.
Attendance in the AAO 2019 in New Orleans and the Advanced Bionics course in Bogotá, Colombia.
PHACON Inc. formalizes its US operations by instituting a Director of the Americas.
PHACON equips six international workshops in cities throughout Russia, the United Kingdom, Norway, France and Germany with our Temporal Bone, Neuro, Orbita, and Sinus Trainer sets.
Participated in seven congresses around the world.
PHACON partners with IMMAST in Mumbai, India to develop our PHACON Temporal bone patient "Mozart", based on CT data of a 3-year-old child in cooperation with Dr. Milind V. Kirtane.
PHACON celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Opening of PHACON Inc, US headquarters in Atlanta.
Five new distributors in Turkey, Finland, Japan, South Korea and India.
Participation in nine international congresses.
Six new developments in the ENT, dental and neuro sectors.
Many customer-specific developments and international course support.
In close cooperation with experienced specialists and doctors at the Hannover Medical School, PHACON developed a PHACON Orbita Trainer, which is specifically suitable for fracturing the orbital floor and surgical reconstruction.
Extensive product expansions for temporal bone, sinus and spinal surgery.
Acquisition of new distributors for Greece and the UK.
The first artificial PHACON tmeporal bone of a 12-month-old patient for cochlear implantation is presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the German ENT Society in Berlin.
PHACON participates in the 10th International Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implant and Related Sciences in Beijing.
Gaining distributors for China and India.
PHACON supplies customers in over 40 countries.
PHACON develops the first trainer for training vascular access in the forearm area.
A unique Temporal Bone Trainer with an integrated camera for visualizing cochlear implantation in a transparent cochlea is developed.
Development and launch of a training system for lumbar spine surgery.
Participation in the annual meeting of the DGNC, the German ENT Congress and the International ENT Congress in Orlando.
PHACON equips courses in the field of rhinoplasty and septoplasty and develops special sinus models for implantology.
The product range in the field of artificial temporal bones is expanded to include special variants and pediatric models.
For the first time at PHACON, a pediatric temporal bone is available for further education and training: The PHACON Temporal Bone “Wagner,” developed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. R. Probst, makes it possible to train temporal bone surgery on a child's anatomy.
Over 300 PHACON trainers are in use worldwide.
PHACON supplies customers in more than 15 countries.
First international course with the PHACON Pediatric Temporal Bone Patient “Wagner” in Toronto.
Expansion of the circle of investors to attract growth capital.
The number of employees increases in the double-digit range.
The second generation of PHACON Navigation enables more precise and larger-scale navigation.
The “PHACON Sinus Trainer” enables realistic and comprehensive training in paranasal sinus and skull base surgery.
In international courses, surgeons train on the PHACON Trainer for cervical spine surgery “PHACON Cervical Spine Trainer”.
Introduction of the PHACON Trainer in the Asian market: SURGIMED CORPORATION becomes a sales partner for PHACON in Taiwan.
Expansion of the PHACON Temporal Bone Trainer to include the PHACON Temporal Bone Patient for cochlear implants: Developed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. R. Probst, the PHACON preparation makes it possible for the first time to train the entire implantation of a cochlear implant.
Advanced and further training courses in Europe, Asia, Australia and America are equipped with PHACON trainers.
Renowned implant manufacturers train the placement of hearing implants worldwide on PHACON Temporal Bone Patients.
Presentation of the PHACON Sinus Trainer at the AAO-HNSF in San Francisco.
The PHACON trainers for temporal bone and cervical spine surgery are used in a hands-on course at the “Congress of Neurological Surgeons CNS” in Washington.
Cooperation with the University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Probst).
Over 200 PHACON trainers are used worldwide for the training of surgeons.
Further development of the PHACON trainer for cervical spine surgery “PHACON Cervical Spine Trainer” with Jefferson University Philadelphia.
The medical technology company “Stryker Corporate” becomes a sales partner for PHACON in the US.
Presentation of the first PHACON Trainer for nasopharyngeal endoscopy “PHACON Throat Trainer”.
PHACON is a finalist for the German Founder Award 2010.
Friedrich von Metzler (Bankhaus Metzler) becomes sponsor of PHACON.
Development of the first artificial preparation for cervical spine surgery.
The PHACON Trainers are equipped with integrated optical navigation “PHACON Navigation” for the first time.
Presentation of the trainers for temporal bone surgery “PHACON Temporal Bone Trainer” and paranasal sinus and skull base surgery “PHACON Sinus Trainer” with integrated navigation at the AAO HNSF in San Diego.
Establishment of the PHACON Trainer in the American market.
Development of the first artificial preparation for paranasal sinus and skull base surgery.
Cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh (UPMC).
Further development of the “real training - virtual assistance” concept.
Presentation of the first PHACON Trainer for paranasal sinus / skull base surgery “PHACON Sinus Trainer”.
Distribution of PHACON Trainers in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
PHACON presents its first Trainer for temporal bone surgery at the German ENT Congress in Mannheim and the international ENT Congress in Washington D.C. (AAO-HNSF).
PHACON GmbH opens in its first headquarters at Leipzig, Nonnenstraße, on April 30, 2007.
PHACON partners with the medical technology company KARL STORZ GmbH & Co KG as international sales partner for PHACON trainers.
Prized as winners of the Future Sax competition in all three phases.
