Patent classifications
A61F2002/30971
Patellofemoral implant with porous ingrowth material and method of manufacturing same
An orthopaedic implant includes: a base including a molding material; a first porous ingrowth material region coupled to the base; a second porous ingrowth material region coupled to the base; and at least one barrier insert coupled to the base, the barrier insert including a barrier material that is configured to prevent introduction of the molding material of the base into some pores of the first porous ingrowth material region and some pores of the second porous ingrowth material region during molding of the base.
Expandable interbodies and related methods
The present disclosure relates to expandable interbodies that include superior and inferior shells and a control assembly positioned between and inside of the shells, the control assembly including nested cages operably connected to each other with an adjustment screw. Rotation of the adjustment screw translates the cages relative to each other, which in turn causes the shells to open or expand.
CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF POROUS SURFACE STRUCTURE AND SUBSTRATE, PREPARATION METHOD FOR CONNECTION STRUCTURE, AND PROSTHESIS
The present invention discloses a connected structure of a porous surface structure and a substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a prosthesis of the same. The connected structure consists of a pre-connected or integrally formed composite body of a porous surface structure and an intermediate; and a substrate, which is connected to said intermediate to achieve the connection of said composite body to the said substrate; the composite body comprising a first composite region corresponding to a first stiffness; a remaining composite region in the composite body other than the first composite region, which at least contains a second composite region corresponding to a second stiffness; and the first stiffness is less than the second stiffness. The present invention achieves a fastened connection between the composite and the substrate and largely maintains the mechanical properties of the substrate; and it provides a prosthesis with excellent bone ingrowth properties and that the strength of the substrate is not substantially affected.
CALCIUM PHOSPHATE POWDER
An object of the present invention is to provide a calcium phosphate powder that enables the preparation of a slurry for additive manufacturing with excellent dispersion stability, and enables the production of a three-dimensional additive manufacturing article with high strength, in additive manufacturing. Provided is a calcium phosphate powder, having an average particle size (D.sub.50) of 0.1 to 5.0 μm, and having a pore volume of mesopores (pore size: 2 to 50 nm) of 0.01 to 0.06 cc/g as measured by a gas adsorption method. The calcium phosphate powder has excellent dispersion stability in a slurry for additive manufacturing, and, by performing additive manufacturing using a slurry for additive manufacturing containing the calcium phosphate, it is possible to produce a three-dimensional additive manufacturing article with high strength, which is useful as an implant, such as an artificial bone.
MODELING DEVICES USED IN GUIDED BONE AND TISSUE REGENERATION
This disclosure describes manufacturing of a device configured to guide bone and tissue regeneration for a bone defect. A method may include receiving a three-dimensional digital model or scan representing an anatomical feature to be repaired, generating a simulated membrane using the three-dimensional model, the simulated membrane being configured to cover the anatomical feature to be repaired, generating a digital two-dimensional flattened version of the simulated membrane, and generating code or instructions configured to cause a three-dimensional printer or milling device to produce a trimming guide that includes an opening corresponding to the flattened version of the simulated membrane and that further includes a cut-out configured to hold a premanufactured membrane. The trimming guide may be operative as a guide for marking or cutting the premanufactured membrane through the opening while the premanufactured membrane is held in the cut-out.
Surgical implant and methods of additive manufacturing
A method of manufacturing a surgical implant includes simultaneously forming a first component and a second component of the surgical implant. Formation of the first and second components includes depositing a first quantity of material to a building platform and fusing the first quantity of material to form a first layer of the first and second components. The method of manufacturing also includes depositing a second quantity of material over the first layer of the first and second components and fusing the second quantity of material to form a second layer of the first and second components. The surgical implant is fully assembled upon the completion of the formation of the first and second components.
Patient-specific mandibular implant inserted into mandibular defect region and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a patient-specific mandibular implant inserted into a mandibular defect region and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to a patient-specific mandibular implant inserted into a mandibular defect region, which can be easily and rapidly manufactured using personalized three-dimensional (3D) printing technology for a defect region, can provide an effect of preparing a later step for restoring a tooth in advance, and can be easily manufactured tooth restoration data based on the Korean standard database (DB), and a method of manufacturing the same.
ROTATOR CUFF BALLOON
A rotator cuff balloon (10) is disclosed, the rotator cuff balloon (10) includes a limiting structure (100) and a protective structure (200) connected to the limiting structure (100). The limiting structure (100) defines a curvature along a coronal plane. The rotator cuff balloon (10) conforms to the physiological structure of the human shoulder joint limits itself in the subacromial space and can reduce a patient's foreign body sensation, dislocation, functional failure and other adverse events.
Method for 3-D printing a custom bone graft
A method for producing bone grafts using 3-D printing is employed using a 3-D image of a graft location to produce a 3-D model of the graft. This is printed using a 3-D printer and a printing medium that produces a porous, biocompatible, biodegradable material that is conducive to osteoinduction. For example, the printing medium may be PCL, PLLA, PGLA, or another approved biocompatible polymer. In addition such a method may be useful for cosmetic surgeries, reconstructive surgeries, and various techniques required by such procedures. Once the graft is placed, natural bone gradually replaces the graft.
IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE BODY AND METHOD FOR FORMING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE BODY
An implantable medical device is disclosed comprising a thermoplastic composite body having anterior, first lateral, second lateral, posterior, superior, and inferior surfaces, and at least one dense portion and at least one porous portion which are integrally formed. The at least one dense portion is formed of a first thermoplastic polymer matrix that is essentially non-porous, and which is continuous through a thickness dimension from the superior surface to the inferior surface. The at least one porous portion is formed of a porous thermoplastic polymer scaffold having a second thermoplastic polymer matrix which is continuous through the thickness dimension. A method for forming the thermoplastic composite body is disclosed comprising disposing a first powder mixture in a first portion of a mold, disposing a second powder mixture in a second portion of the mold, simultaneously molding the first powder mixture and the second powder mixture, and leaching porogen.