An inclination guide for use with an implant insertion tool during a surgical procedure includes a unitary body having a clip configured to be coupled to a mounting surface of the implant insertion tool, an elongated riser extending from the clip, and an elongated indicator extending from the elongated riser to a distal end. Such a design allows for an inexpensive and lightweight inclination guide that may be easily and quickly adjusted after assembly.

An implant insertion tool for use during a surgical procedure to implant an acetabular cup component into a surgically-prepared acetabulum of a patient's hip includes a metallic elongated shaft, a removable polymeric grip, and a locking nut to secure the grip to the elongated shaft. Such a modular design allows the implant insertion tool to be dissembled prior to sterilization.

An orthopaedic surgical instrument may include an elongated body with an implant end and an impactor end. A latch lever may be pivotally coupled to the elongated body. The latch lever may be moveable between an open position and a latched position in which the latch lever is retained within the body. An acetabular shell component may be rigidly attached to the implant end of the elongated body. An automated surgical impactor may be attached to the impactor end.

An instrument for establishing orientation of a pelvic prosthesis comprises a hub, a first arm attached to and extending from the hub, and a second arm attached to and extending from the hub. The first and second arms define a nominal plane of the apparatus, and may extend from the hub at an angle relative to each other. Distances between the first and second legs and between the first and third legs are adjustable. The first, second, and third legs have tips, and the tips of the first, second, and third legs define a plane having a predefined geometric relationship to the nominal plane of the apparatus.

A surgical or arthroscopic method for resurfacing at least one surface of a hip joint of a human patient, using a medical device comprising an artificial hip joint surface, wherein the hip joint surface comprising an acetabulum surface and a caput femur surface, said method comprising the steps of: creating at least one hole passing into the hip joint, dissecting and preparing the hip joint, introducing at least one artificial hip joint surface, comprising at least one of an artificial acetabulum surface and an artificial caput femur surface, wherein said at least one artificial hip joint surface, comprising a first sealing member, creating a sealed hollow space between said first sealing member and one of the acetabulum surface or said artificial acetabulum surface and one of the caput femur surface or said artificial caput femur surface, selecting at least one artificial hip joint surface and injecting a material into said hollow space.

Systems and methods for ascertaining a position of an orthopedic element in space comprising: capturing a first and second images of an orthopedic element in different reference frames using a radiographic imaging technique, detecting spatial data defining anatomical landmarks on or in the orthopedic element using a deep learning network, applying a mask to the orthopedic element defined by an anatomical landmark, projecting the spatial data from the first image and the second image to define volume data, applying the deep learning network to the volume data to generate a reconstructed three-dimensional model of the orthopedic element; and mapping the three-dimensional model of the orthopedic element to the spatial data to determine the position of the three-dimensional model of the orthopedic element in three-dimensional space.

An acetabular prosthesis assembly includes an acetabular shell component and an acetabular bearing component. The shell component includes a concave inner wall having a tapered surface with multiple anti-rotation slots defined therein. The bearing component includes a convex outer wall as well as an annular flange and multiple anti-rotation keys extending radially outward from the outer wall. When the anti-rotation keys are positioned in rotational alignment with the anti-rotation slots, the flange of the bearing component is positioned in contact with the tapered surface of the shell component. When the anti-rotation keys are positioned out of rotational alignment with the anti-rotation slots, the flange is spaced apart from the tapered surface. Methods for assembling and using the acetabular prosthesis assembly are also disclosed.

Systems, instruments, tools and methods for facilitating the removal of a knee or hip implants and other bone implants.

A patient specific guide for hip replacement for patients undergoing hip replacement surgery. The guide works for correction of the acetabulum defects based on a finite element model, which detect the bone quality and guide the surgeons for the optimum screws trajectories. The guide surface reflects the acetabular morphology which provide a correct posting of the cup, especially for the complex case as bone loss, severe fractures and tumors. CT-scan images are used to construct the 3D model of the acetabulum bone, therefore a finite element and virtual surgery planning methods are applied to create the electronic file of the patient specific guide. In final step, the 3D printers are used to produce the patient specific guide.

The present invention relates to an acetabular cup removing apparatus for an artificial hip joint. An acetabular cup removing apparatus for an artificial hip joint according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a main driving unit; a main shaft which is rotatable by a driving force of the main driving unit; a cutter unit which is disposed at a front end of the main shaft, tiltable along an acetabular portion into which an acetabular cup has been implanted, and cuts the acetabular portion while being rotated by the main shaft; and a stepless adjustment unit for steplessly adjusting a tilting angle of the cutter unit while continuously moving in a forward and backward direction relative to the main shaft.